Selecting a value from a drop-down option using selenium python

Question

I want to select a value from a drop-down option. The html is as follows:

<span id="searchTypeFormElementsStd">

    <label for="numReturnSelect"></label>
    <select id="numReturnSelect" name="numReturnSelect">
        <option value="200"></option>
        <option value="250"></option>
        <option value="500"></option>
        <option selected="" value="200"></option>
        <option value="800"></option>
        <option value="15000"></option>
        <option value="85000"></option>
    </select>

</span

I tried as follows:

find_element_by_xpath("//select[@name='numReturnSelect']/option[text()='15000']").click()

What is wrong with it? Please help me!

Answer 1

Adrian Ratnapala is right and also i would choose id over name, so you can try the following :

find_element_by_xpath("//select[@id='numReturnSelect']/option[@value='15000']").click()

OR

find_element_by_css_selector("select#numReturnSelect > option[value='15000']").click()

OR

you can use select_by_value(value) :

Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("select#numReturnSelect")).select_by_value(15000).click()

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