To select dropdown menu on PHP/selenium doesn’t work

I’m tring to select this dropdown list using PHP/selenium.

My code is below:

sleep(3);
$driver->findElement( WebDriverBy::xpath("//*[@id='main']/form/section[2]/mer-select[1]/div/label/div[2]/select") )
->findElement( WebDriverBy::cssSelector("option[value='2']") )->click();

and I tried all attempts suggested in this post. Non of them works.

I want your help. Thank you.

Answer

If this css:

select.input-node.medium.placeholder[name='category1']

or this xpath:

//select[contains(@class,'input-node medium placeholder') and @name='category1']

represent unique node in HTMLDOM which means 1/1 matching node then you can use the below code to select the desired option from the drop down.

Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath/css and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

Code:

$select = new WebDriverSelect($driver->findElement(WebDriverBy::cssSelector("select.input-node.medium.placeholder[name='category1']")));
$select->selectByValue('3');