Question

I am trying a select a text from the Dropdown Menu using Selenium webdriver in C#
It is working perfectly with Chrome browser, but not with Firefox. Could any one help me to fix this.

The code I am using is given below.

public void SelectCountry1(string country)
{
var countryDropDown = Driver.FindElement(By.XPath(xpathidofthecountrydropdown));
countryDropDown .Click();
//Driver.FindElement(By.XPath(xpathidofthecountrydropdown)).Click;
var selectElement = new SelectElement(countryDropDown);
selectElement.SelectByText(country);
}

I am able to call this function and this is executing successfully without any error messages. I am not able to select the expected keyword eventhough it exists.

Currently I am having a workaround of Clicking on the same id twice and that makes the code to work. With the commented section uncommented But I dont think that is correct workaround. Let me know your thoughts on this.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yah, it doesn’t work well with Firefox. I had to use this as a workaround using jQuery. Feel free to modify this code with regular JavaScript if you don’t have jQuery on the page.

public static void SetDropdownSelectedOptionByText(IWebDriver driver, string tagId, string newText, int sleepTime)
{
    // not working when selecting client id of certain types of ASP.NET user controls
    //new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Id(tagId))).SelectByText(newText);  

    IJavaScriptExecutor js = driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
    js.ExecuteScript("$('#" + tagId + " option:contains(" + Element.NonNullValue(newText) + ")').attr('selected', 'selected')");
    js.ExecuteScript("$('#" + tagId + "').change()");
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(sleepTime);  // wait for dependent dropdown to load its values
}