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I am creating a selenium test with java. I want to automize a dropdown menu in a dialogue. The xpath of the dropdown menu is:

/html/body/div[8]/div/div/form/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/select

My problem is that I cant select an element from the dropdown menu. I used:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until

and ExpectedCondition to select an element. Can you help me to find a way to select an element from the drop-down.

To select one of the select-options from a html-select tag you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using id and selectByIndex():

  new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("selectID")))).selectByIndex(1);
  

• Using cssSelector and selectByVisibleText():

  new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("selectCssSelector")))).selectByVisibleText("OptionText");
  

• Using xpath and selectByValue():

  new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("selectXpath")))).selectByValue("OptionValue");
  

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• How to select an option from a dropdown through Selenium WebDriver
• Trying to select an option from the dropdown in Selenium web automation -error- "ElementNotInteractableException: could not be scrolled into view"
• How to retrieve the value of options from a select drop-down using Selenium?