How to select an item from the Drop Down combo thru' selenium web driver

Hi Friends,

I'm using Selenium WebDriver 2.0 and I need a script for selecting an item from the drop down combo box.

I got the (x)path information when I recorded my webpage using Selenium IDE and my code is the following:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='j_idt51:country']/div[2]/span")).click();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='j_idt51:country_panel']/ul/li[2]")).click();

When I run this code from Eclipse, system is not selecting the SECOND element from the drop down combo instead it is retaining the first element. See this screen shot where I'm unable to select USA item from the combo box thru' the above script.



Please guide how can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance

You can use Select class to select element from drop down in WebDriver -

http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/Select.html#selectByVisibleText(java.lang.String)

I tried with 'Select' class like this.

Select sel = new Select (driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='j_idt51:country_panel']/ul/li[2]")));
sel.click();

But it is not working instead it is displaying the following error message in the console.

[ Element should have been select but was span ]

It would work if element has "select" tag

Does driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='j_idt51:country_panel']/ul/li[2]")) refer to the correct element.
Try to print / debug
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='j_idt51:country_panel']/ul/li[2]")).getAttribute("innerHTML")';
and see whether it got the required element in it.