java - Selenium Select - Selecting dropdown option by part of the text

Question

The class Selenium Select has 3 methods of different option selection:

1. selectByIndex
2. selectByValue
3. selectByVisibleText

Now, I have a situation where I want to select an option by some text that partially appear in one of the options visible text (don't want to expose myself to changes in the WHOLE text).

For example:

<option value="0" label="not-intresting">VERY-LONG-TEXT-THAT-I-NEED-TO-SELECT-DOLLAR</option>

And i want to select this option only by providing the "DOLLAR", something like:

select.selectByPartOfVisibleText("DOLLAR") 

How would you implement it effectively?

Answer 1

My solution is to use xpath to find options that are children of the select. Any xpath method can be used to find the select; in this example I am finding the select by id.

List<WebElement> options = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//select[@id = 'selectId')]/option"));

for (WebElement option : options) {
    if (option.getText().contains("DOLLAR")) {
        option.click();
        break;
    }
}

After a little more thought I realize the option can be found entirely with xpath:

driver.findElements(By.xpath("//select[@id = 'selectId')]/option[contains(text(), 'DOLLAR')]")).click();