I am getting error Element should have been select but was input using Selenium Webdriver Java

Question

When I select the value form dropdown box it is throwing Error message "Element should have been "select" but was "input” is shown when I select the value form drop down box. I have tried with selectByValue() and selectByIndex().

Below is my HTML:

<div class="rcbScroll rcbWidth" style="width: 100%; overflow: auto; height: 40px;">

<ul class="rcbList" style="list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;zoom:1;">

<li class="rcbItem">TIN</li>

<li class="rcbHovered">SSN</li>

</ul>

</div>

And the java code:

Select select=new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath(OR.getProperty("SSN"))));

select.selectByValue("SSN");

Comments

how to solve the same in python .i tried 

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='Full SCan']/li").click()

and

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*li[text()='Full Scan']").click()

both aren't working

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Hi Riya, instead of using xpath, use className to identify the dropdown item. Following command would help you:

driver.find_element_by_class_name("rcbItem").click();

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Hi @riya, try this:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@name='element_name']/option[text()='Full Scan']").click()

Either use element name or use option with text. Don't use both at once as shown in the above code. 

Answer 1

You can Select element by the following method:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(OR.getProperty("SSN")).click();

 and next select the desired drop down in following way :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[text() = 'SSN']")).click();