How to solve "org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"" selenium error

Question

I'm going to get the default selected value of the below dropdown

I wrote below code to do it.

Select selectyear = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("year")));
WebElement year = selectyear.getFirstSelectedOption();
String selectedoption = year.getText();

But this throws the following error

org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "input"

How can I fix this? same code is working perfectly for dropdowns that don't have "value" attribute.

Answer 1

The only explanation is there is another element with id year, the input tag.

Put this code before Select selectyear = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("year")));:

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.id("year"));
        for (WebElement element: elements) {
            System.out.println("Tag: " + element.getTagName());
            System.out.println("Text: " + element.getText());
            System.out.println("Location: " + element.getLocation());
        }

Solution is relative xpath for the select: select[@id='year']