How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python?

Question

I need to select an element from a drop-down menu.

For example:

<select id="fruits01" class="select" name="fruits">
  <option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option>
  <option value="1">Banana</option>
  <option value="2">Mango</option>
</select>

1) First I have to click on it. I do this:

inputElementFruits = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[id='fruits']").click()

2) After that I have to select the good element, lets say Mango.

I tried to do it with inputElementFruits.send_keys(...) but it did not work.

Answer 1

Selenium provides a convenient Select class to work with select -> option constructs:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('url')

select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('fruits01'))

# select by visible text
select.select_by_visible_text('Banana')

# select by value 
select.select_by_value('1')

See also:

• What is the correct way to select an using Selenium's Python WebDriver?