[🐛 Bug]: SelectElement not working after updating selenium webdriver 4 and IEDriverServer 4

[shlokVK]

What happened?

after updating selenium WebDriver (3.15 to 4.0.0) and IEDriver (3.150.1 to 4.0.0) getting below error while setting dropdown value, code was working properly with old selenium version (3): Error : Cannot click on option element. Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine

HTML :

None India

C# code : public By countrySelector = By.Id("selCountry"); public string Country { set => new SelectElement(Driver.FindElement(countrySelector )).SelectByText(value); }

   Country= "India";

How can we reproduce the issue?

HTML : 
<TD vAlign=top><SELECT id=selCountry">
<OPTION selected value=0>None</OPTION> <OPTION value=1>India</OPTION></SELECT>
</TD>

 public By countrySelector = By.Id("selCountry");

        public string Country
        {
            set => new SelectElement(Driver.FindElement(countrySelector )).SelectByText(value);
        }

Country= "India";

Relevant log output

Cannot click on option element. Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine

Operating System

Window server 2016

Selenium version

C# Selenium version 4 , IEDriver 4

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Internet Explorer 11

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

IEDriver 4

Are you using Selenium Grid?

no

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[titusfortner]

Every other example of this exception I've seen has been when working with drop-downs that aren't actually select/option elements. This functionality shouldn't have changed between Selenium 3 & 4. Can you copy/paste the complete HTML for the form you are working with?

[shlokVK]

Every other example of this exception I've seen has been when working with drop-downs that aren't actually select/option elements. This functionality shouldn't have changed between Selenium 3 & 4. Can you copy/paste the complete HTML for the form you are working with?

thanks for reply HTML Sample Code :

                                                                                                                                                            

None India UK USA

Code is working properly with below Scenario:

Scenario 1

Selenium.Webdriver : v3.141.0 Selenium.Support : v3.141.0 Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver : v3.150.1.2

Scenario 2

Selenium.Webdriver : v4.1.0 Selenium.Support : v4.1.0 Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver : v3.150.1.2

Code is not working properly with below Scenario:

Scenario 1

Selenium.Webdriver : v4.1.0 Selenium.Support : v4.1.0 Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver : v4.0.0 Sample HTML.txt

[nibinki]

I am facing same issue in selenium 4.1 , ie driver 4 and working in Internet explorer mode using edge . Same code was working on previous versions . None of the select elements working eventhough we can view the options but not able to select any value . If there is any alternative for this please suggest.

[bluesbox1]

This is the exact issue I encountered yesterday after updating to Selenium 4 and IEDriverServer 4.0.0 in order to test our website in Edge compatibility mode. Following this issue. Hope fix will be deployed soon.

[mnstylianou]

I have the same issue after updating to Selenium 4 and IEDriverServer 4.0.0 (and java) in order to test a bank application in Edge compatibility mode

[mnstylianou]

This is a blocker for me as you must select a role and a branch to log in to the application, so I have even tried to do a workaround using Actions:

default T actionSelect(By by, String text){
        Actions actions = new Actions(getDriver());
        getDriver().manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
        WebElement dropElement=getDriver().findElement(by);     //find the dropdown
        dropElement.click();
        Select dropOptions = new Select(dropElement);
        int elements = dropOptions.getOptions().size();    //number of elements in dropdown

        for (int i = 0; i < elements; i++) {    //for each element
            actions.sendKeys(Keys.DOWN,Keys.DOWN,Keys.DOWN).build().perform();   //arrow down
            Log.message("value is = " + i + ": "+dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText());

            if (dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText().equals(text))   //check current element
            {
                actions.sendKeys(Keys.ENTER).build().perform();  //Send Keys.Enter when found
                break;
            }
        }
        return (T) this;
    }

It fails with the same error: org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptException: Cannot click on option element. Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine.

[mnstylianou]

The following modified code using actions sends a TAB when the correct entry is found and it works:

default T actionSelect(By by, String text) {
        Actions actions = new Actions(getDriver());
        getDriver().manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
        WebElement ele = getDriver().findElement(by);
        Select dropOptions = new Select(ele);
        ele.click();
        int elements = dropOptions.getOptions().size();
        for (int i = 0; i < elements; i++) {
            if (dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText().equals(text)) {
                Log.message("Found value: " + dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText());
                actions.sendKeys(Keys.TAB).build().perform();
                break;
            } else {
                Log.message("value is = " + i + ": " + dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText());
                actions.sendKeys(Keys.DOWN).build().perform();
            }
        }
        return (T) this;
    }

[kameshgvm]

I am also facing the same issue. Above solution is not that much feasible when there are many values in the dropdown and time consuming.

[mnstylianou]

I am also facing the same issue. Above solution is not that much feasible when there are many values in the dropdown and time consuming.

Very true. It is slow and clumsy but at least I'm not blocked any more. It is only meant to be a temporary solution till this issue is fixed properly

[AradhanaJamwal]

Any resolution on this issue..facing same challenge.. Seems like IE driver 4 or later binding has this issue...

[shlokVK]

Any resolution on this issue..facing same challenge.. Seems like IE driver 4 or later binding has this issue...

no there is no any resolution yet.

[ZooDoo4U]

Might assert this is not limited to the IE Driver, the error i'm getting the exception with Chrome. I run with Chrome and Firefox and it seems Firefox is fine. That said comparing these two the Chrome version executes super fast, the Firefox is really slow... Will look into the Support UI source for the SelectElement if that source is available.

The execution time is interesting. Chrome takes about 50ms while Firefox 1 second. Just seems there is some additional checks/waits that is allowing Firefox to work...

My Vitals: Win 10 VS 2019 C# .Net 4.8 Chrome Driver: 100.0.4896.6000 Firefox Driver: 0.30.0.1 Selenium: 4.1.0

I believe these are the latest/greatest/current versions for all...

Hmm... Going through and double checking stuff, i'm seeing the nuget project reference is 4.1.0, But in the dll in the lib folder is 4.0.0? Normal or mismatched???
Specifically: .\Selenium.Support.4.1.0\lib\net48\WebDriver.Support.dll

Dll date == 11/22/2021 -- matches reported date from Nuget page publishdate, so a typo in the DLL's version info...

[diemol]

For the ones who are facing this issue and using IE. Have you tried to use Edge in the IE Mode? What are the results? Please share a GitHub repository we can clone to reproduce the issue.

[madrian13]

@diemol I tried and got same issue with Edge in IE Mode.

[ZooDoo4U]

Interesting one thing investigating my code, seems i might be running into an error by pushing my website too fast. Seems my code was incorrectly reading the number of options within the node. I coded up a work around

var selectList = driver.ById("chapters");
var optItem =selectList.ByXPath($"./option[contains(.,'{value}')]");
optItem.Click();

This was working fine until it didn't, but only because i had no wait and essentially getting the webpage with possible erroneous values. Anyway putting in a short delay to prevent reading a dirty web page seems to have fixed my issue. I've tested with my work around as well as using the SelectElement. Sorry for the noise.

diemol commented 2 years ago

@madrian13 can you share a GitHub repo with some code to reproduce the issue?

shlokVK commented 2 years ago

@madrian13 can you share a GitHub repo with some code to reproduce the issue?

please find below c# code to reproduce issue :

using OpenQA.Selenium; using OpenQA.Selenium.IE; using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

var dir = @"C:\Users\VK\Desktop\EDge Temp\EDge\bin\Debug\net6.0"; var driver = "IEDriverServer.exe";

var ieService = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(dir, driver); var ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions { };

ieOptions.AttachToEdgeChrome = true; ieOptions.EdgeExecutablePath = @"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe";

var webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieService, ieOptions); webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");

webdriver.Manage().Window.Maximize();

string currentWindowHandle = currentWindowHandle = webdriver.CurrentWindowHandle;

//switch to window webdriver.SwitchTo().Window(currentWindowHandle);

//find text box control and set value var LoginFieldElement = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("txtLogin"));

LoginFieldElement.SendKeys("sa");

var PasswordFieldElement = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("txtPassword")); PasswordFieldElement.SendKeys("s");

// find drop down and select value var selectElement = new SelectElement(webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("cmbDomain"))); selectElement.SelectByText("TestDomain");

//click on ok button var ok = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("btnOK"));

ok.Click();

diemol commented 2 years ago

@shlokVK I cannot use that code because it is incomplete. Values are missing, what URL can we use? webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");?

Please share a GitHub repository that we can clone and troubleshoot.

shlokVK commented 2 years ago

@shlokVK I cannot use that code because it is incomplete. Values are missing, what URL can we use? webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");?

Please share a GitHub repository that we can clone and troubleshoot.

it is not possible to share our internal site url. so. I just shared sample login screen code to set values using selenium with c#.

diemol commented 2 years ago

It does not need to be the exact same code you are using, we need any code and any HTML/URL that can be used to reproduce the issue.

shlokVK commented 2 years ago

It does not need to be the exact same code you are using, we need any code and any HTML/URL that can be used to reproduce the issue.

okay. i will try to reproduce same issue with some standard web site's using drop down control.

madrian13 commented 2 years ago

sorry for late reply @diemol I can't provide access to the app I am testing for my client . That app it's not even available in the internet. I tried to create another project that I can share and reproduce on a public website but there ... surprise ... it works. I'm curios if @shlokVK will find one where the issue can be reproduced. If anyone has a public site to reproduce this I can update that in my project, give it a try and share it project in case issue gets reproduced. The issue might be also related to the fact that in my client's app the Edge browser is not rendering using IE11 engine, it's enforced trough EMSL config to use compatibility mode IE7.

shlokVK commented 2 years ago

I tried to reproduce issue with below code using some standard website as input. and surprise.. ....it works. however, I have also same type input html in our project. but we are getting error with IEDriverServer v 4 and same code is working properly with IEDriverServer v 3.15. I have also tried with latest IEDriver v4.0.1 (released before 2 weeks) but no any solution in latest version.

Error : Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

//set IEDriverServer.exe path
var dir = @"C:\Users\csu\source\repos\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug\net6.0";
var driver = "IEDriverServer.exe";

var ieService = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(dir, driver);
var ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions { };

ieOptions.AttachToEdgeChrome = true;
ieOptions.EdgeExecutablePath = @"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe";

var webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieService, ieOptions);

webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php");

var currentWindowHandle = webdriver.CurrentWindowHandle;

webdriver.SwitchTo().Window(currentWindowHandle);

var selectElement = new SelectElement(webdriver.FindElement(By.Name("education")));
// select by text
selectElement.SelectByText("College");

//please find below html code for drop down in our project.

Australia Canada

[diemol]

@madrian13 can you share a GitHub repo with some code to reproduce the issue?

[shlokVK]

@madrian13 can you share a GitHub repo with some code to reproduce the issue?

please find below c# code to reproduce issue :

using OpenQA.Selenium; using OpenQA.Selenium.IE; using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

var dir = @"C:\Users\VK\Desktop\EDge Temp\EDge\bin\Debug\net6.0"; var driver = "IEDriverServer.exe";

var ieService = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(dir, driver); var ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions { };

ieOptions.AttachToEdgeChrome = true; ieOptions.EdgeExecutablePath = @"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe";

var webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieService, ieOptions); webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");

webdriver.Manage().Window.Maximize();

string currentWindowHandle = currentWindowHandle = webdriver.CurrentWindowHandle;

//switch to window webdriver.SwitchTo().Window(currentWindowHandle);

//find text box control and set value var LoginFieldElement = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("txtLogin"));

LoginFieldElement.SendKeys("sa");

var PasswordFieldElement = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("txtPassword")); PasswordFieldElement.SendKeys("s");

// find drop down and select value var selectElement = new SelectElement(webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("cmbDomain"))); selectElement.SelectByText("TestDomain");

//click on ok button var ok = webdriver.FindElement(By.Id("btnOK"));

ok.Click();

[diemol]

@shlokVK I cannot use that code because it is incomplete. Values are missing, what URL can we use? webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");?

Please share a GitHub repository that we can clone and troubleshoot.

[shlokVK]

@shlokVK I cannot use that code because it is incomplete. Values are missing, what URL can we use? webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("site URL");?

Please share a GitHub repository that we can clone and troubleshoot.

it is not possible to share our internal site url. so. I just shared sample login screen code to set values using selenium with c#.

[diemol]

It does not need to be the exact same code you are using, we need any code and any HTML/URL that can be used to reproduce the issue.

[shlokVK]

It does not need to be the exact same code you are using, we need any code and any HTML/URL that can be used to reproduce the issue.

okay. i will try to reproduce same issue with some standard web site's using drop down control.

[madrian13]

sorry for late reply @diemol I can't provide access to the app I am testing for my client . That app it's not even available in the internet. I tried to create another project that I can share and reproduce on a public website but there ... surprise ... it works. I'm curios if @shlokVK will find one where the issue can be reproduced. If anyone has a public site to reproduce this I can update that in my project, give it a try and share it project in case issue gets reproduced. The issue might be also related to the fact that in my client's app the Edge browser is not rendering using IE11 engine, it's enforced trough EMSL config to use compatibility mode IE7.

[shlokVK]

I tried to reproduce issue with below code using some standard website as input. and surprise.. ....it works. however, I have also same type input html in our project. but we are getting error with IEDriverServer v 4 and same code is working properly with IEDriverServer v 3.15. I have also tried with latest IEDriver v4.0.1 (released before 2 weeks) but no any solution in latest version.

Error : Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

//set IEDriverServer.exe path
var dir = @"C:\Users\csu\source\repos\ConsoleApp1\ConsoleApp1\bin\Debug\net6.0";
var driver = "IEDriverServer.exe";

var ieService = InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(dir, driver);
var ieOptions = new InternetExplorerOptions { };

ieOptions.AttachToEdgeChrome = true;
ieOptions.EdgeExecutablePath = @"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/Edge/Application/msedge.exe";

var webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieService, ieOptions);

webdriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php");

var currentWindowHandle = webdriver.CurrentWindowHandle;

webdriver.SwitchTo().Window(currentWindowHandle);

var selectElement = new SelectElement(webdriver.FindElement(By.Name("education")));
// select by text
selectElement.SelectByText("College");

//please find below html code for drop down in our project.

[madrian13]

@diemol I think I've managed to reproduce it with a simple page I created the issue got reproduced only after adding in the page the line below to enforce IE7 mode

After that I got the error below ... Message: Test method SelectIssueIEMode.Tests.TestSelect threw exception: OpenQA.Selenium.JavaScriptException: Cannot click on option element. Executing JavaScript click function returned an unexpected error, but no error could be returned from Internet Explorer's JavaScript engine.

[madrian13]

@diemol I just uploaded the project here: https://github.com/madrian13/SelectIssueIEMode

[shlokVK]

In my sample test application when I hit standard http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php" website URL, select drop down works properly.

When I Hit my application url in same sample application code. Select dropdown does not work properly. I am getting same javascript error.

Selenium Webdriver version : 4.0.0 IEDriver version : 4.0.0

and same selenium code works properly when I changed IEDriver version 4.0.0 to 3.150.1.2

[madrian13]

@diemol does the example I provided work for you ? Can you reproduce the issue ? Any hope to get this issue fixed ?

[kite39]

I found a solution! Use JavaScriptExecutor.

Selenium Webdriver version : 4.1.3 IEDriver version : 4.0.0

 public void selectOption(WebDriver wdriver,WebElement wele,String value) throws Exception {
      JavascriptExecutor jexec = (JavascriptExecutor) wdriver;
      jexec.executeScript("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ if(select.options[i].text == arguments[1]){ select.options[i].selected = true; } }", wele, value);
  }

  public void deselectOption(WebDriver wdriver,WebElement wele) throws Exception {
      JavascriptExecutor jexec = (JavascriptExecutor) wdriver;
      jexec.executeScript("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ select.options[i].selected = false; } ", wele);
    }

■Samlple exec code
WebElement sitem = windowDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='itemSel']"));
selectOption(windowDriver, sitem, "test object");

[kameshgvm]

Thanks Kite. It is working for me. But, I am following few issues after implementing it.

1. Unable to select value using index. (what changes to do in the code).
2. It is only selecting values but not rendering. i.e. after selecting values from 1st dropdown, screen should refresh and values in the 2nd dropdown should be populated. This is not happening.
3. In one of the existing application few buttons are not working with one click. When I am clicking 2nd time it is working. Example Search button is fetching results only on clicking 2nd time. (Weird behavior though your code is implemented for dropdown.)

[mnstylianou]

This is what I've been using to select by index:

default T jsSelectByIdAndIndex(String id, String index) {

        ((JavascriptExecutor) getDriver()).executeScript("return document.getElementById('" + id + "').selectedIndex = '" + index + "'");

        return (T) this;
    }

[mnstylianou]

The above uses the elements @id. To use the element's xpath:

 default T jsSelectByXpathAndOption(String xpath, String option, Integer index) {
        getDriver().manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(2));
        By by = By.xpath(xpath);
        if (index != null) {
            ((JavascriptExecutor) getDriver()).executeScript("return document.evaluate(\"" + xpath + "\", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.selectedIndex = '" + index + "'");
        } else {
            WebElement ele = getDriver().findElement(by);
            Select dropOptions = new Select(ele);
            int elements = dropOptions.getOptions().size();
            for (int i = 0; i < elements; i++) {
                if (dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText().equals(option)) {
                    Log.message("Found value: " + dropOptions.getOptions().get(i).getText());
                    ((JavascriptExecutor) getDriver()).executeScript("return document.evaluate(\"" + xpath + "\", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.selectedIndex = '" + i + "'");
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return (T) this;
    }

[RNDaniel]

I found a solution! Use JavaScriptExecutor.

Selenium Webdriver version : 4.1.3 IEDriver version : 4.0.0

 public void selectOption(WebDriver wdriver,WebElement wele,String value) throws Exception {
      JavascriptExecutor jexec = (JavascriptExecutor) wdriver;
      jexec.executeScript("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ if(select.options[i].text == arguments[1]){ select.options[i].selected = true; } }", wele, value);
  }

  public void deselectOption(WebDriver wdriver,WebElement wele) throws Exception {
      JavascriptExecutor jexec = (JavascriptExecutor) wdriver;
      jexec.executeScript("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ select.options[i].selected = false; } ", wele);
  }

■Samlple exec code
WebElement sitem = windowDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='itemSel']"));
selectOption(windowDriver, sitem, "test object");

Thank you very much you are an angel. I'm working in a bank too with a very old system and I couldn't do my job because of this bug. I wrote it in python and this finally works for me.

[diemol]

Thank you all for finding the root cause of the issue (IE7 mode) and finding ways to provide a workaround. The project currently only supports IE11, and soon only the IE Mode in Edge.

I will close this issue but feel free to continue the conversation in the comments.

[shlokVK]

Thank you all for finding the root cause of the issue (IE7 mode) and finding ways to provide a workaround. The project currently only supports IE11, and soon only the IE Mode in Edge.

I will close this issue but feel free to continue the conversation in the comments.

Javascript executor is the work around for this issue. however, what about original SelectElement class issue ? because it is a best practice to use Selenium SelectElement methods to set/select drop down option values

[diemol]

You mentioned that it works except when you use IE7 compatibility mode on the site, which is the reason for the bug, since currently only IE 11 is supported.

To my understanding, from your research, you can use SelectElement when the site does not force IE 7 mode. So, based on what we currently support, it is fine, right?

[madrian13]

@diemol Not sure I understood it right, who is not suporting IE7/5 compatibility mode, IEDriver 4 ? Is there an oficial documentation where it's written wich are the supported versions (Sorry but I am not sure if you refer to the one I found below). Is there any plan to add support for the older versions ? (since they still exist in Edge in IE Mode )

_https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/ie_driver_server/ The InternetExplorerDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver’s wire protocol. This driver has been tested with IE 11, and on Windows 10. It might work with older versions of IE and Windows, but this is not supported._

[ZooDoo4U]

@diemol, @madrian13, Been there when working for companies and needing to support stuff... But IE7? It came out in 2006, and if memory serves me, people moved off it to IE8 because IE7 had issues, more because everyone was trying to maintain and support compatibility with IE6. Not only is the browser itself flaky and problematic, the older version of IE were deprecated because of so many security vulnerabilities. Really do need to get with the times...?

[madrian13]

@ZooDoo4U Totally agree. But I'm not the one that needs to be convinced. I'm your side here. Yet , even if it's hard to believe, there are some companies that for some reasons still use some old web apps that only run with that compat mode enabled ...

[ZooDoo4U]

@madrian13, Might suggest for those needing to support stuff that old, might do better to "go with the flow", meaning use the older version of Selenium that matched up with IE7 as well as other tools like VS 2008... Seems insane to mix and match such wildly different versions, too much changes, thing are deprecated in the OS... Can't complain when things go south, while the weather down there might be nicer ;)

[madrian13]

@ZooDoo4U Problem is that IE 11 is going to be removed from windows and older IeDriver (v3.x) had some issues with Edge(IE Mode) that were supposed to be fixed in the new version (v4.x). Also , according to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-chromium/ie-mode?tabs=c-sharp To begin automating tests in IE mode in Microsoft Edge, download IEDriver. Make sure that the version of IEDriver that you download is 4.0.0.0 or greater.

[ZooDoo4U]

@madrian13, Not saying you would disagree, my problem with the quoted link... "automating tests in IE mode in Microsoft Edge". My first response would be, so test in Edge and be done with it. Understood many have old plug-ins, OCX controls, are the main driving factor, but IE 7 is 15 or more years old and easily 5 years past end of life/support... Then again if there is a bug in the old plug in... Is the bug Selenium's issue or who's?

[shlokVK]

You mentioned that it works except when you use IE7 compatibility mode on the site, which is the reason for the bug, since currently only IE 11 is supported.

To my understanding, from your research, you can use SelectElement when the site does not force IE 7 mode. So, based on what we currently support, it is fine, right?

@diemol I didn't mention anything about IE7 Compatibility. SelectElement is working properly with IE11 and IEDriver version 3.150.1.2. also same code works properly with Edge in the IE Mode. so there is no any compatibility issue. but same SelectElement code is not working properly after updating IEDriver version 3.150 to 4.

[diemol]

You are right, what I meant is to repeat what was said above. If the site requests this https://github.com/madrian13/SelectIssueIEMode/blob/master/SelectIssueIEMode/login.html#L4, then it does not work, which is out of the scope if the currently supported versions.

[shlokVK]

You are right, what I meant is to repeat what was said above. If the site requests this https://github.com/madrian13/SelectIssueIEMode/blob/master/SelectIssueIEMode/login.html#L4, then it does not work, which is out of the scope if the currently supported versions.

@diemol got it thanks for the clarification. is there any chances to resolve original issue (SelectElement) in next IEDriver release for IE 11 or Edge in the IE Mode?

[diemol]

I do not think so, supporting versions that are already EOL does not make sense. You can ask to the Edge folks if they would consider it https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/EdgeWebDriver, but I cannot imagine that.

[shlokVK]

We have to use InternetExplorerDriver to execute test in the Edge browser with IE mode. because our application works only in Internet Explorer browser (it's old web application). I don't think this issue is related with EDge Webdriver. this is something related with IEDriver.

`InternetExplorerOptions optIE = new InternetExplorerOptions(); optIE.AttachToEdgeChrome = true; optIE.EdgeExecutablePath = edgeExecutablePath;

var webdriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(InternetExplorerDriverService.CreateDefaultService(), optIE); `

[diemol]

I point to the Edge team because they are now kindly helping us with the IEDriver. But again, I doubt we want to add backwards compatibility for a version that is EOL since many years ago.

[shlokVK]

I point to the Edge team because they are now kindly helping us with the IEDriver. But again, I doubt we want to add backwards compatibility for a version that is EOL since many years ago.

@diemol okay. thank you for your input.

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