Selenium: How to wait for options in a select to be populated?

Question

I am using Selenium for the first time and am overwhelmed by the options. I am using the IDE in Firefox.

When my page loads, it subsequently fetches values via an JS

Answer 1

Its work for me:

  WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='NamE']/option[1]"));
  return element.getAttribute("text");