Using Selenium (Java),Unable to select a particular value from dropdown

Question

In my application, there is a drop down to select "Estimation Date":

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Please find below my test case. It is failing at the line where I am trying to select "Since":

public class dropdown_issue {
 GenericFunctions gf= new GenericFunctions();
 @Test(enabled = true)
 public void dropdown () throws InterruptedException{
 System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\Selenium\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe"); 
 WebDriver dr=new FirefoxDriver();
 dr.get("http://10.127.129.79:8080/abc");
 Thread.sleep(3000);
 dr.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("user");
 dr.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("user");
 dr.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@type='submit']")).click();
 WebElement est_date_dd= dr.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='clearfix']//select[@name='est-date']"));
 Select est_date= new Select(est_date_dd);
 est_date.selectByValue("Since");
 Thread.sleep(3000);
 dr.quit(); 
 }
}

• Narendra Chandratre: Hi Aalok, I observe this same behavior. "SelectByValue( )" is not working sometime. Work Around, When you open listbox using name I was able to click & set the actual value to list box. Let me know if it works for you too!
• Aalok: Thanks @NarendraC, the workaround worked. Now, trying to do it the right way. Is there any chance that I use Java script in order to accomplish this?
• Narendra Chandratre: Great. Its fine, I have not used JS. You can use. I will add my answer below now, accept!

Answer 1

I observe this same behavior. "SelectByValue( )" doen not working sometime. Below solution worked well for me :

• Click on listbox
• Once list & options are visible, Assert/Check visibility for option which you want to select preferably by name locator
• Then using click() perform click on that option & it will set the actual value to list box.
• For confirmation, again you can check correct value is selected in listbox or not?

Answer 2

The value of the option is actually string:SINCE.

Either use this value or select by visible text:

est_date.selectByValue("string:SINCE");
// or est_date.selectByVisibleText("Since ");

• Aalok: Hello @alecxe, I figured it out and updated the value. But that didn't work either. But, thanks for analyzing the code. 1 up for that.
• alecxe: @Aalok okay, thanks, what if you do est_date.selectByVisibleText("Since ");? (see the space after the "Since").
• Aalok: Okay. Will try that and share an update because I didn't put a space earlier.
• Aalok: Tried that but no success. Seems like Selenium does not get along well with angular. :). Thanks though!

Answer 3

Looks like you are trying to automate AngularJS website..

From locators perspective, I don't see any problem in the code..

I would suggest to do the following -

Before selecting the drop down, try clicking on dropdown and see the code works or not.

 WebElement est_date_dd= 
 dr.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='clearfix']//select[@name='est-date']"));
 est_date_dd.click(); 
 Select est_date= new Select(est_date_dd);
 est_date.selectByValue("Since");

Let me know if this doesn't work.

Thanks!

• Aalok: Thanks for your inputs. I am getting this error when trying to select value "Since": FAILED: dropdown org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Cannot locate option with value: Since
• mashkurm: Can you please try selecting with index and see whether it works or not? Are you providing the exact text which is there in Element tree?
• Aalok: Yes. I am proving the same exact text but it didn't work. I tried with the index too. But doesn't seem like working. :(. Although, thank you for you efforts.