Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 13: Working with Select Elements
How to interact with select elements
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3 min readMar 1, 2021
In the previous post, we looked at how to manage different kinds of alert dialogs. This post will be about working with select elements on a web page.
The <select> tag is used to create a drop-down list of options. It is usually used in a form to collect user input.
Selenium provides a Select class in the support package to manage select elements easily.
In order to start, we need to create a Select instance with a select element. If you don’t give an element with the select tag, UnexpectedTagNameException is raised.
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select# ...element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "element_id")
select_object = Select(element)
If you created the Select object successfully, you can start interacting with the options.
How to select an option?
There are 3 methods provided to select an option:
