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

Try the below code

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

try:
    # 10 is the maximum time to wait
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#mySelectId option[value='valueofOptionYouExpectToBeLoaded']"))
    )
except TimeoutException:
    print("Time out")

#  Write your code