I am getting error for drop down list

[Adarsh Kumar]

Hi ,

I am getting following error in web driver for the drop down list. I tried all the methods but same error. Please help me on this.

Unable to locate element:

Command duration or timeout: 280 milliseconds

[Praveen iG]

Hi Adarsh,

Could you please provide more information? Either the URL of where you're trying this or the code snippet might help.

Regards,
Praveen G

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[Adarsh Kumar]

This is the code snippet 

<select name="ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$ddlTestSubject" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_ddlTestSubject" style="width:400px;">
		<option value="-1">-- Select --</option>
		<option value="1">101-Biochemistry</option>
		<option value="2">102-Biotechnology</option>
		<option value="3">103-Botany</option>
		<option value="4">104-Chemistry</option>
		<option value="5">105-Computer Science</option>
		<option value="6">106-Food Technology</option>
		<option value="7">107-Marine Biology</option>
		<option value="8">108-Mathematics</option>
		<option value="9">109-Physics</option>
		<option value="10">110-Statistics</option>
		<option value="11">111-Zoology</option>
		<option value="12">112-Microbiology</option>
		<option value="13">201-Commerce</option>
		<option value="14">202-Economics</option>
		<option value="15">203-Education</option>
		<option value="16">204-English</option>
		<option value="17">205-Political Science &amp; Public Administration</option>
		<option value="18">206-Social Work</option>
		<option value="19">207-Telugu</option>
		<option value="20">301-Integrated Biotechnology</option>
		<option value="21">302-Integrated Food Technology</option>
		<option value="22">303-Integrated Business Administration</option>
		<option value="23">401-Aquaculture</option>
		<option value="24">402-Journalism</option>
		<option value="25">403-Translation</option>

	</select>
                                
                                    <span id="ContentPlaceHolder1_RequiredFieldValidator43" style="color:Red;display:none;">Select the Subject</span>
                                </td>

[Praveen iG]

Have you tried adding wait statements? 

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[Nagarjuna Madineni]

Hi Adarsh,

Based on your question, unable to locate the element like 280 milliseconds right.

Can you increase the waits to seconds instead of milliseconds.

Example: Your using Thread.sleep(1000 instead of Thread.sleep(1).

[Mallik H]

Sample working code:

public static void main(String[] arg) throws InterruptedException

{

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("file:///D:/myhtml.html");

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select")));

// Dynamically select one of the available options

String strvalidSelectOption = null;

Integer iIndex =  new Random().nextInt(select.getOptions().size());

strvalidSelectOption = select.getOptions().get(iIndex).getText();

if(!strvalidSelectOption.contains("-- Select --"))

{

Thread.sleep(2000);

select.selectByVisibleText(strvalidSelectOption.trim());

}

else

{

iIndex =  new Random().nextInt(select.getOptions().size());

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select")).click();

Thread.sleep(2000);

select.selectByValue(select.getOptions().get(iIndex).getText());

[Mallik H]

Sample working code: