Handle Dropdown in Selenium Python

In selenium python, dropdowns can be handled and selected from the option using a class called the 'Select' class. Select class is instantiated by using the select tag selector inside the select as an argument. If you spot a select tag in DOM, the select class is the one.

select = Select(dropdown)

The value in the dropdown can be selected using WebDriver's Select class. There are three techniques:

selectByValue
selectByVisibleText
selectByIndex

Here is an example HTML code:

<select id="mySelect">
<option value="option1">One</option>
<option value="option2">Two</option>
<option value="option3">Three</option>
</select>

This can be handled by select class by:

select = Select(dropDown)
select.select_by_visible_text('Three')
select.select_by_index(1)

Example:

Autopract site solely created for handling dropdowns is used, for example, in this site.

Let us try to select 'Football' by text and 'Table Tennis' by index.
Select's index starts from zero, so Table Tennis is in the third index. Let us check it out using the Selenium code.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium. web driver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.UI import Select

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('http://autopract.com/selenium/dropdown1/')
dropDown = driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//select[@class='custom-select']")
select = Select(dropDown)
select.select_by_visible_text('Football')
select.select_by_index(3)

This code will select Football first and Table Tennis from the dropdown by the third index.
This is how we can select from the dropdown in selenium using Python.