Selenium Select not working on dropdown element

Issue

So I am trying to run the following code to select an option from a drop-down toolbar:

## Drop-down menu
time.sleep(5) # wait for element to load in page otherwise selenium won't be able to find it
element_dropdown = driver.find_element("id","conference-dropdowns")
element_dropdown.click()

# Select visible text
time.sleep(5)
select = Select(element_dropdown)
select.select_by_visible_text("Bulk Upload")

But then I get the following error:

UnexpectedTagNameException: Message: Select only works on <select> elements, not on <label>

How do I resolve this issue? Why am I getting this error? See structure below. Thanks so much in advance.

Solution

The desired element isn’t within any html-select tag, but they are within <label> tag.

So you won’t be able to use Select() class.

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Solution

The click element with text as Bulk Upload you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategy:

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//li[@class='dropdown-submenu']//label[@class='submenu' and contains(., 'Bulk Upload')]"))).click()
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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

Answered By – undetected Selenium

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