[FIXED] How to click and select an option from a non select dropdown using Selenium and Java

Issue

I'm starting automation with Selenium, it's the very first time im doing it alone and i can´t find the correct code for a dropdown list here https://demoqa.com/automation-practice-form at the end there is a "State and City list".. for state you have to click on "Select State" then it gives you the options so then you have to click on the option wanted.

This is my code, I've tried different options but this is the closest one to get a correct working of the code (but it's still not doing what it needs to be done) I know it cant be done with a Select since it's a div and I can only use:

driver.findElement()

Code trials:

//Select state and city
driver.findElement(By.id("state")).click();     
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body/div/div/div/div/div/div/form/div[10]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]")).click();

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Solution

The drop-down-menu is a non html-select element. To select an item from the State dropdown you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

driver.get("https://demoqa.com/automation-practice-form");
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("div#state div[class$='placeholder']"))));
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("div#state div[class$='placeholder']"))).click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//*[contains(., 'Uttar Pradesh')]"))).click();

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Automating jQuery based bootstrap dropdown using Selenium and Java
• I would like to select a DropDown from a list but HTML don't have select Tag I am not sure should i use Select class or what

Answered By - DebanjanB