org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was

[Priyanka]

org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"

I am trying to select value from a dropdown with code as below but it is giving me error as above:

Select dropdownloc = new Select(BrowserUtil.driver.findElement(By.className("dropdowBbutton")));
dropdownloc.selectByValue("France");

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Priyanka,

The problem should be evident from the error message. The Select class cannot be used with "input" tags. It will work only "select" tags.

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[bhuvant...@gmail.com]

Hi Priyanaka ,

Myself getting this error , if i initiate this code , Please guide me

[kapeesh gupta]

Hi,

I am trying to read the value from the properties file. But, I am getting the same error. Please let me know where I am wrong? My code is mention below.

Config.properties file:

################### Register Page- test Data ##############

URL=https://www.naukri.com/account/createaccount?othersrcp=16201&err=1

name= kapeesh

email= kapeesh1990@****.com

password= neelgiri123

number= 7447794701

exp_Year= 5

exp_month= 6

################### Register Page- object repository ##############

name_id= fname

email_id= email

pass_id= password

mobile= number

drop_year= expYear

drop_month= expMonth

=========================================================

Class File Code:

package SeleniumFirst;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Properties;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class ReadProperties {

static WebDriver driver;

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

Properties prop= new Properties();

FileInputStream file= new FileInputStream("D:/Selenium-Apr-20/SeleniumSession/src/SeleniumFirst/config.properties");

prop.load(file);

System.out.println(prop.getProperty("name"));

System.out.println(prop.getProperty("age"));

String url= prop.getProperty("URL");

System.out.println(url);

String browserName= prop.getProperty("browser");

System.out.println(browserName);

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D://Backup/AA-DesktopFiles/Testing_Tutorial/*****************/Drivers/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe");

//driver = new ChromeDriver();

if(browserName.equals("chrome")){

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:/Backup/AA-DesktopFiles/Testing_Tutorial/************/Drivers/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe");

driver= new ChromeDriver(); //Launch Driver

}

else if(browserName.equals("FF")){

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:/Backup/AA-DesktopFiles/Testing_Tutorial/***************/Drivers/geckodriver/geckodriver.exe");

driver= new FirefoxDriver(); //Launch Driver

}

driver.get(url);

driver.findElement(By.xpath(prop.getProperty("btn_name_xPath"))).click();

driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("name_id"))).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("name"));

driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("email_id"))).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("email"));

driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("pass_id"))).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("password"));

driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("mobile"))).sendKeys(prop.getProperty("number"));

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("drop_year"))));

select.selectByVisibleText("exp_year");

select.selectByValue(prop.getProperty("exp_Year"));

}

}

Error in Console:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"

Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:48'

System info: host: 'ADMIN-PC', ip: '192.168.43.226', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_191'

Driver info: driver.version: unknown

at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select.<init>(Select.java:48)

at SeleniumFirst.ReadProperties.main(ReadProperties.java:53)

[Hanumantha Reddy]

The problem is in the tag, select work only with Select type of tag, 

You need to look into the drop_year property value,

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name(prop.getProperty("drop_year"))));

For better understanding you can follow below video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45AXL0qVKk&list=PLUtTaqnx2RJIK_2RXGonM3joTG6uZSfhV&index=20