title: select value from a drop down for angular application without select tag in selenium webdriver
body: <p>See the above code and help me to select IBM Software training from the dropdown.I got stuck on this issue for past 1 week. As the front end is made in angular and there is no select tag, so I am unable to select the dropdown.I don't have selenium IDE installed on my laptop as I am using Firefox version 52.Selenium IDE is not available for higher version.So, really helpless.Please help me out to resolve this issue.</p>
  
  <pre><code>              &lt;div class="cdk-overlay-container"&gt;&lt;div class="cdk-overlay-backdrop cdk-overlay-transparent-backdrop cdk-overlay-backdrop-showing"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div id="cdk-overlay-3" class="cdk-overlay-pane" dir="ltr" style="min-width: 503px; pointer-events: auto; top: 108.422px; left: 209px;"&gt;
            &lt;div class="mat-select-panel mat-primary mat-select-panel-done-animating" style="transform-origin: 50% 24px 0px; opacity: 1; min-width: calc(100% + 32px); transform: scaleY(1);"&gt;
              &lt;div class="mat-select-content" style="opacity: 1;"&gt;
  
                    &lt;!----&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-99" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              IBM Software training3
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-100" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              IBM Software training1
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-101" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              New Category
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-102" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              IBM SOftware trainingggggg
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-103" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              IBM Software training
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-104" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
             qqq
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
      &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-105" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
              eeeee
  
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-106" aria-
      selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
                  New
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-
          107" aria-selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
                  Economics
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  &lt;md-option role="option" tabindex="0" id="md-option-108" aria-
      selected="false" aria-disabled="false" class="mat-option"&gt;&lt;!----&gt;
                 IBM
  &lt;/md-option&gt;
  
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>