Select option from dropdown and Webdriver in C#

[gadhet]

Hi all,

I would like to select some option from my dropdown by text from
dropdown not via value. Can someone help me with this?

I have part of my code:

<td class="pageContentControl">
<select
id="ctl00_ctl20_g_6db904a7_390a_4cdb_9cf5_6fd8dfbcd9f3_ctl00_comboSelectPage"
style="width:250px;"
onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'ctl00$ctl20$g_6db904a7_390a_4cdb_9cf5_6fd8dfbcd9f3$ctl00$comboSelectPage
\',\'\')', 0)"
name="ctl00$ctl20$g_6db904a7_390a_4cdb_9cf5_6fd8dfbcd9f3$ctl00$comboSelectPage">
<option value="38" selected="selected">Expat Portal</option>
<option value="39">Corporate information</option>
<option value="40">Mission statement</option>
<option value="41">Types of assignments</option>
<option value="42">Objectives</option>
....

and now I would like to type e.g. Objectives and select this option
from my dropdown by selenium/webdriver.

I have the same action by value but I'd like to change this to text
from dropdown:
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("option[value=\"42\"]")).Click();

I'm using C#. Can someone help? Thanks

[Mark Collin]

You can use the Select object available in selenium support:

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

Select mySelectElement = new
Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='foo']")));
mySelectElement.selectByVisibleText("My Text");

or

mySelectElement.selectByValue("Value of Option");

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[Jim Evans]

Note that in the .NET bindings, the dropdown helper class is called
SelectElement (Select is a keyword when using LINQ). It's located in
the WebDriver.Support.dll assembly.

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[gadhet]

so I've done something like this:

C#:

SelectElement mySelectElement = new
SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//
select[@id='ctl00_ctl20_g_6db904a7_390a_4cdb_9cf5_6fd8dfbcd9f3_ctl00_comboSelectPage']")));
mySelectElement.SelectByText("Objectives");

but it doesn't select Objectives option from dropdown. Any suggestion?

[gadhet]

Sorry my mistake. It's working.

Thanks!!!