How To View Text Options Within A Dropdown Menu

The HTML of the select list looks like: However when I run: month = driver.find_element_by_id('date_range_month_start_chosen') month.click() ## make dropdown list visible in bro

Solution 1:

A couple of points here:

1. Use the Select Class to work with the select and options tags.
2. We should try to select an option only through Select type of object.

3. Here is the code block for your reference :

   selectmonth = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('date_range_month_start'))
   for option in selectmonth.options:
       print(option.text)      
   

Update

If you face a ElementNotVisibleException due to style="width: 109px; display: none; use this block of code:

element = driver.find_element_by_id('date_range_month_start')   
driver.execute_script("return arguments[0].removeAttribute('style');", element)
selectmonth = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('date_range_month_start'))
for option in selectmonth.options:
    print(option.text)      

Solution 2:

Selenium does that when an element is not visible on the screen.

You have display: none in your style tag. I think you'll find that if you remove it, then you will see what you expect.

I think this is because selenium is built to emulate user behaviour - and a user can not read text that is not shown.