Stuck at selectOption()

[hlogi]

Greetings from Africa!

I'm running functional tests in Yii2. I have my HTML source as follows:

<form>
    <select id="user-role" class="form-control" name="User[role]">
    <option value="">Select Role</option>
    <option value="mentor">Mentor</option>
    <option value="exec">Exec</option>
    <option value="admin">Admin</option>
    </select>
</form>

When my tests reach this line:

$I->selectOption('form select[name=User[role]]', 'exec');

I encounter the following error:

XPath or CSS locator is malformed: form select[name=User[role]]

What I am I doing wrong?

[webward09]

I suspect the nested square brackets are the problem. Your form has an id, why not just use that?

$I->selectOption('#user-role', 'Exec');

This section in the docs has advice on how to write locators:
https://codeception.com/docs/modules/WebDriver#Locating-Elements

[hlogi]

Thanks webward09 it works. Clearly I'm tired!