There are a lot of outdated protractorjs articles out there on the Internet. If you see anything like by.input or ptor. are probably outdated. So go to the source http://angular.github.io/protractor/#/api-overview to see the latest and official docs.

Now you are here, probably wondering if protractor has a method to choose an option with a value, or text for that matters. Well, I ran into this issue real quick after writing a few specs for my project. So after reading the official docs, there’s none, but it can be done.

Here’s how:

1. use `elementFinder` to find all the sub-elements by tag name `option`
2. compare each option value with the value you want to choose
3. if it matches, then click that element

Simple Right? Let put it in code:

function selectOptionByValue(elementFinder, value) {
  elementFinder.all(by.tagName('option'))
    .then(function findMatchingOption(options) {

      options.some(function (option) {
        option.getAttribute('value').
          then(function (optionValue) {
            if (optionValue === value) {
              option.click();
              return true;
            }
          });
      });

    })
}


var elementFinder = element(by.id('selectId'));

selectOptionByValue(elementFinder, 'somevalue');

Why are there a lot of then? All methods of elementFinder return a promise.