How to select a value from a drop down menu

Question

I want to select the option from the drop-down menu. I tried a number of ways but I failed.

I tried:

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 5);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); 
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));
    waitForElementToBeDisplayed(driver.findElement(By.linkText("iMacs")), 200);
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30); 
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[text()='iMacs']")));

This is my code:

            WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Product Category"));
            Actions action = new Actions(driver);
            action.moveToElement(element).perform();
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 5);
            wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));
            WebElement subElement = driver.findElement(By.linkText("iMacs"));
            action.moveToElement(subElement);
            action.click();
            action.perform();

This is my error:

org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Expected condition failed: waiting for visibility of element located by By.linkText: iMacs (tried for 5 second(s) with 500 MILLISECONDS interval)

Answer 1

So you are hovering over some element and then trying to click on specific link? Which driver are you using? Do you actually see that this menu is correctly rendered after hover?

Your code fails on wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));

Try with wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs"))); instead and see if it fails then (and what exception it throws in that case).

And why are you using Actions API to perform click?

Answer 2

I tried executing your code in Chrome and it always worked for me. However, as sometimes, it is failing for you, you can put recovery mechanism in your code, as shown below:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Product Category"));
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(element).perform();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 5);
try {
       wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));
} catch (WebDriverException we) {
       System.out.println("First attempt to wait for visibility of 'iMacs' failed. Retrying...");
       action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.linkText("Product Category"))).perform();
       wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("iMacs")));
}
WebElement subElement = driver.findElement(By.linkText("iMacs"));
action.moveToElement(subElement);
action.click();
action.perform();

Above code should always work. Please let me know, if you have any further queries.

Answer 3

Please check the sendkeys option also. May be this help in your code.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("code']")).sendKeys("testdata");