stupid question. how to set a value in a dropdown (html's select) with seleno?

[isaldarriaga]

I couldn't find any documentation for this simple task.

I tried with click() over the control, but doesn't make the dropdown to display the options.

The selector is returning an OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebElement object.

thanks.

[mwhelan]

Hi @isaldarriaga There's no such thing as a stupid question! And dropdowns are a lot trickier with Selenium than one might expect.

On your Page Object, you have a couple of methods for selecting items in a dropdown, either by value or by text:

Input.SelectByOptionValueInDropDown(x => x.RequiredEnum, value);
Input.SelectByOptionTextInDropDown(x => x.RequiredEnum, value);

You can see them both illustrated in our acceptance tests, on this Page Object: https://github.com/TestStack/TestStack.Seleno/blob/master/src/TestStack.Seleno.AcceptanceTests/PageObjects/Form1Page.cs

And these two acceptance tests in this file: https://github.com/TestStack/TestStack.Seleno/blob/master/src/TestStack.Seleno.AcceptanceTests/PageObjects/Controls/IndividualWritingTests.cs

Selecting_option_by_its_value_in_a_Drop_Down Selecting_option_by_its_text_in_a_drop_down

Hope that helps.

[isaldarriaga]

Hi @mwhelan. thanks for your response.

I'm seeing in the test acceptance examples they're using strongly-typed page objects.

This is not my case. I just use weakly-typed ones and use Find.Element to look for controls by ID, name, etc.

When i try to assign the returned RemoteWebElement to a DropDown, i get a System.InvalidCastException. They shouldn't be compatible.

I'm new to the repo. Is there an example there with weakly typed?

thanks.

[robdmoore]

Try using

HtmlControlFor<DropDown>("nameOfSelectElement").SelectElementByText("Name of option to select");
// or
HtmlControlFor<DropDown>("nameOfSelectElement").SelectElement(value);

[isaldarriaga]

Thank you @robdmoore

It worked pretty well.

It would be helpful that HtmlControlFor<> receives a selector instead of an Id, and work similar to Find.Element