Selenium, ComboBox, select value by text

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Hello everyone,

I’m currently working on automating some UI tests with Selenium and I’ve run into a bit of a snag. I’ve successfully located the specific ComboBox I need to interact with by using an XPath selector. However, I’m stuck on how to proceed with selecting a specific value from the ComboBox that matches certain criteria.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

  • I used XPath to correctly identify and interact with the ComboBox on my UI.

From here, I’m unsure how to filter and select a particular value. Does anyone have suggestions or best practices on how to programmatically select an item from a ComboBox based on its text or another attribute? Any examples or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance for your help!

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It’s going to be some kind of JavaScript job with executeScript. If you know the item you want to select, something like combobox.value = selectThis in JavaScript should work. Vaadin TestBench has ready-made functionality for all this.

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Tenks Olli. I switched to playwright with Mopo. For now, I can’t afford pro subscription.

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That’s a good choice. Selenium can be very flaky

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I’d rather recommend you use https://playwright.dev. Selenium is kinda outdated tool by my POV.

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