Selecting a Single Option From a Select List

Select an option by text

Typically on a web page in a browser, we see the label of a select list. With the help of this label, we can select an option from a select list in Selenium as:

driver.findElement(By.name("car_make")).sendKeys("Volvo (Sweden)");  

// or by partial text
driver.findElement(By.name("car_make")).sendKeys("Volvo");

Here, the sendKey() function is used to select an option from the select list.

However, note that writing such scripts in NodeJS is different from any other supported language. For instance, if we were to write the exact same thing in JAVA, we would do something like:

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("car_make_select")));
select.selectByVisibleText("Volvo (Sweden)");

Although the latter approach is much more clear than the former, we don’t have any equivalent workaround in NodeJS.