Python selenium drop down menu click

Question

i want to select option from a drop down menu, for this i use that :

br.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='adyen-encrypted-form']/fieldset/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/ul/li[5]/span").click()

To select option month 4 but when i do that pyhton return error message :

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible (Session info: chrome=51.0.2704.103) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.22.397929 (fb72fb249a903a0b1041ea71eb4c8b3fa0d9be5a),platform=Mac OS X 10.11.5 x86_64)

That is the HTML code:

</div>
   <div class="form-row exp-date clearfix fancyform">
   <div class="formfield expired-label monthcaption">
     <label>Date d'expiration <span>*</span></label>
</div>
<div class="formfield month">
<div class="value value-select">
<select class="selectbox required" id="dwfrm_adyenencrypted_expiryMonth"   data-missing-error="Veuillez sélectionner le mois d'expiration"  data-parse-error="Ce contenu est invalide"  data-range-error="Ce contenu est trop long ou trop court"  data-value-error="Cette date d'expiration est invalide"  pattern="^(:?0[1-9]|1[0-2])$"  required="required" >
   <option class="selectoption" label="Mois" value="">Mois</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="01" value="01">01</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="02" value="02">02</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="03" value="03">03</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="04" value="04">04</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="05" value="05">05</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="06" value="06">06</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="07" value="07">07</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="08" value="08">08</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="09" value="09">09</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="10" value="10">10</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="11" value="11">11</option>
   <option class="selectoption" label="12" value="12">12</option>
</select>

What is wrong ? I know selenium cant find the element but i dont know why , xpath wrong ? i need to use other method to find element ? thanks for anwsers

Answer 1

You should use Select() to select an option from drop down as below :-

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

 wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)


 element = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "dwfrm_adyenencrypted_expiryMonth")))

 select = Select(element)
 select.select_by_value("04")

Edited :- If unfortunately above does not work you can also try using .execute_script() as below :-

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)


element = wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "dwfrm_adyenencrypted_expiryMonth")))

 driver.execute_script("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ if(select.options[i].value == arguments[1]){ select.options[i].selected = true; } }", element, "04")

Hope it will work...:)