Two similar dynamic drop down list selection selenium web driver 2.0

[Srav]

I have two dynamic drop down list which are similar, I'm unable to select from the second drop down list. Below is the html:

<div id="list" class="x-list">
<div id="list-list" class="x-list-list-ct">
<ul>
<li class="x-item" role="option">US Dollar - USD</li> 
<li class="x-item x-list-selected x-list-item-over" role="option">Afghan Afghani - AFN</li> //<--this is my 1st selection from 1st dropdown list
<li class="x-item" role="option">Albanian Lek - ALL</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Algerian Dinar - DZD</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Angolan Kwanza - AOA</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Argentine Peso - ARS</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

<div id="list" class="x-list">
<div id="list-list" class="x-list-list-ct">
<ul>
<li class="x-item x-list-selected x-list-item-over" role="option">US Dollar - USD</li> //<--this is my default hover selection
<li class="x-item" role="option">Afghan Afghani - AFN</li> 
<li class="x-item" role="option">Albanian Lek - ALL</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Algerian Dinar - DZD</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Angolan Kwanza - AOA</li>
<li class="x-item" role="option">Argentine Peso - ARS</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

When a element is selected or hovered the class name changes to 'x-item x-list-selected x-list-item-over'
For the first list I use driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[text()[contains(.,'Afghan Afghani - AFN')]]")).click();
When I do the same for second list, the element gets selected but the list doesn't close.

[SantoshSarma]

Try like this

For selecting from first list

   

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/div/ul/li[text()='Afghan Afghani - AFN']")).click();

For selecting from second list

   

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[2]/div/ul/li[text()='Afghan Afghani - AFN']")).click();

[Oscar Rieken]

I would submit a defect to your devs W3C standards note id's should be unique

id = name [CS]

This attribute assigns a name to an element. This name must be unique in a document.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

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[Srav]

Bhushan I tried closing by clicking on a static element, but it isn't helping me.
Santosh : Creating the dynamic xpath on div elements isn't helping me, because the number of div elements are dynamic.

[kranthi kondle]

even dynamic xpath we can handle.

Can u send ur application screenshot and html code?

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Srav <srav...@gmail.com> wrote:

Bhushan I tried closing by clicking on a static element, but it isn't helping me.
Santosh : Creating the dynamic xpath on div elements isn't helping me, because the number of div elements are dynamic.

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[Srav]

I have four dropdown menus on this page.
Because the second and third are similar, I'm having a hard time selecting the 4th drop down menu item.

[Srav]

@Kranthi 

For my second drop down list I use the below 

driver.findElement(

By.xpath("//label[text()[contains(.,'Currency')]]/../../table/tbody/tr/td[1]/input"))

.click();

WebElement we = driver.findElement(By

.xpath("//li[text()[contains(.,'US Dollar - USD')]]"));

we.click();

For my third drop down list I use 

driver.findElement(

By.xpath("//label[text()[contains(.,'Currency')]]/../../table/tbody/tr/td[2]/input"))

.click();

WebElement we = driver.findElement(By

.xpath("//li[text()[contains(.,'US Dollar - USD')]]"));

we.click();

For the above code I get an error saying element cannot be found.

So I alternatively started using this, which is working for now

driver.findElement(By

.xpath("//label[text()[contains(.,'Currency')]]/../../table/tbody/tr/td[2]/div"));

Keyboard kb = ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).getKeyboard();

kb.pressKey(Keys.RETURN);

So for now this is selecting the first default in the list, that is US Dollar-USD, But if I want to select another currency I am using kb.pressKey(Keys.ARROW_DOWN); So per say if I want to select a 10th in list I need to use kb.pressKey(Keys.ARROW_DOWN); 10 times, which definitely doesn't make sense.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[Andy Doan]

I agree with Oscar, ids should be unique, but here is a workaround that I have used with many elements look the same.

Try using driver.findElements(locator), and then WebElement.findElements() or WebElement.findElement()

Something like ...

List<WebElement> allULs = driver.findElements(By.tagname("ul"));
WebElement secondUL = allULs.get(1);
WebElement thirdUL = allULs.get(2);
List<WebElement> allLIsFromSecondUL = secondUL.findElements(By.tagname("li"));
//search through LIs, click on matching LI
for (WebElement singleLI: allLIsFromSecondUL ) {
            if (singleLI.getText().equals("Afghan Afghani - AFN"))
                    singleLI.click();

[Manoj Hans]

+1 for andy...

--Manoj Hans

[Srav]

Thanks Andy, will give it a try and let you know.