Selenium, select value from listbox without using select in Java

Question

How to select a value from dropdown?

My solution is not working:

Select dropdown_month = new Select(
    driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div[1]/div[2]"))
);
dropdown_month.selectByVisibleText("July");

Answer 1

This is because you're trying to handle <div> element while Select class should be used only with <select> elements.

In your case you might need to use simple click() method as below:

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div[1]/div[2]")).click() // To open drop-down
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[.='July']")).click() // To select required option