Getting org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been “select” but was “div”

[Snow Gift]

When I'm trying to get the Dropdown options I am getting an Exception.

Exception

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

Source Code

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//a[@class='navbar-nav-link dropdown-toggle'])[1]")).click();
Select drp = new Select (driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='dropdown-menu show']")));
    List<WebElement> opt = drp.getOptions();
    for (WebElement we : opt) {
        String name = we.getText();

HTML Code

<a href="#" class="navbar-nav-link dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="true"><i class="fa fa-paper-plane"></i> <span>Flight</span></a>
  <div class="dropdown-menu show">
     <a href="AirHistory" class="dropdown-item"><i class="fa fa-history"></i> <span>History Booking</span> </a>
     <a href="AirRetrievePNR" class="dropdown-item"><i class="fa fa-download"></i> <span>Import PNR</span> </a>
     <a href="AirReschedule" class="dropdown-item" style="display:none"><i class="fa fa-exchange"></i> <span>Online ReIssue</span> </a>
  </div>

I can't able to Select or Access the Dropdown...

Help me to get out of this..!!

[sagar yenkar]

Try this one 

Select size = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("")));
        size.selectByVisibleText("100");
        size.selectByIndex(5);

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[Snow Gift]

Again I got an Exception......

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

[Dinesh K]

I think it's a jQuery's custom dropdown, you have to write your own custom method to select the value/text. 

How to identify & select value in dropdown using 3 steps approach:

1. First Identify & Click the link element - "navbar-nav-link".

2. Wait for the List of WebElements to be displayed - //div[@class='dropdown-menu show']/a.

3. Now find & select the value.

Please refer the below link will give an idea about how to approach it

http://learn-automation.com/handle-bootstrap-dropdown-in-selenium-webdriver/

Hope this helps !

Regards,

Dinesh K

[Debkumar Das]

Hey,

May be in html they did not used Select tag. Try click on drop-down and then get all the values in List and try to access.

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[mrinmoy saha]

Hi,

Can u share the link of the webpage?

Are u trying to access all the drop-down list values and print them?

Thanks,
Mrinmoy

[Bathiy L.]

As per the given HTML code, you cannot construct a Select since tag of the element is not Select (not standard select/dropdown html element),

To get options from this you can try something as below

     List<WebElement> opt = driver().findElements((By.xpath("//div[@class='dropdown-menu show']/a")));

    for(WebElement we : opt) {

    String name = we.getText();

    }

On Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 10:47:47 AM UTC+5:30, Snow Gift wrote:

[vikas sv]

You cannot use Select option for a div, that is why you get the exception.

you can use Click option only on combo boxes of type div.

Best Regards,

Vikas