how to deal with filling a dropdown with a specifc optgroup?

[ulfgj]

unfortunately in each optgrgoup we have options with the same values...

in the collect/read script

icon_dropdown = 'div.field--name-field-oe-icon select'
icon_text = sb.get_text(f'{icon_dropdown} option[selected]')
icon_value = sb.get_attribute(f'{icon_dropdown} option[selected]', 'value')
dropdown_element = sb.find_element(f'{icon_dropdown} option[selected]')
optgroup_element = dropdown_element.find_element("xpath", "ancestor::optgroup")  # parent of selected option
optgroup_label = optgroup_element.get_attribute("label")

in the fill/create-script

icon_dropdown = 'div.field--name-field-oe-icon select'
sb.select_option_by_value(f'{icon_dropdown} optgroup[label="{data["optgroup_label"]}"] option', data['icon_value'])

the last line throws the error:
UnexpectedTagNameException(f"Select only works on <select> elements, not on {webelement.tag_name}")

how do we select an option with a specificed optgroup?

[mdmintz]

The select_option_by_* methods only work on <select> elements with <option> tags.

You can probably use js_click(selector) to click what you want, even if the option is hidden.

[ulfgj]

thnx michael! js_click didn't work somehow, though.
messed aroun dand found that a normal click with xpath worked:
sb.click(f"//optgroup[@label='{label}']/option[@value='{icon}']")