How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java

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I am new to selenium   currently am working on selenium webdriver i want to select a value from the drop down  The id periodId and the option is many in that am trying to select Last 52 weeks   Here is the HTML code    lt select id  periodId  name  period  style  display  none   gt       lt option value  l4w  gt Last 4 Weeks lt  option gt       lt option value  l52w  gt Last 52 Weeks lt  option gt       lt option value  daterange  gt Date Range lt  option gt       lt option value  weekrange  gt Week Range lt  option gt       lt option selected    value  monthrange  gt Month Range lt  option gt       lt option value  yeartodate  gt Year To Date lt  option gt   lt  select gt    Please suggest me some ways to click the drop down   I tried with the above example lines but am getting error such as Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout  32 milliseconds the drop downs values are the jquery multiselect widget format

User · Answer

You can use following methods to handle drop down in selenium.

driver.selectByVisibleText("Text");
driver.selectByIndex(1);
driver.selectByValue("prog");

For more details you can refer http://www.codealumni.com/handle-drop-selenium-webdriver/ this post.

It will definately help you a lot in resolving your queries.

User · Answer

Actually select does select but not placing the selected values to the respective field   Where wondered the below snippet works perfectly   driver findElement By name  period    sendKeys  Last 52 Weeks

User · Answer

WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    WebElement identifier   driver findElement By id  periodId     Select select   new Select identifier   select selectByVisibleText  Last 52 Weeks

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As discussed above  we need to implement Select Class in Selenium and further we can use various available methods like  -

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If you want to write all in one line try  new Select  driver findElement By id  designation     selectByVisibleText  Programmer

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First Import the package as       import org openqa selenium support ui Select    then write in single line as      new Select  driver findElement By id  sampleid     selectByValue  SampleValue

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Try this-  driver findElement By name  period    sendKeys  Last 52 Weeks

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I have not tried in Selenium  but for Galen test this is working   var list   driver findElementByID  quot periodID quot        this will return web element list click       this will open the dropdown list  list typeText  quot 14w quot        this will select option  quot 14w quot    You can try this in selenium  the galen and selenium working are similar

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code to select dropdown using xpath  Select select   new  Select driver findElement By xpath    select  id  periodId        code to select particaular option using selectByVisibleText  select selectByVisibleText Last 52 Weeks

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Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below  Select dropdown   new Select driver findElement By id  identifier        Once this is done you can select the required value in 3 ways  Consider an HTML file like this   lt html gt   lt body gt   lt select id    designation  gt   lt option value    MD  gt MD lt  option gt   lt option value    prog  gt  Programmer  lt  option gt   lt option value    CEO  gt  CEO  lt  option gt   lt  option gt   lt  select gt   lt body gt   lt  html gt    Now to identify dropdown do  Select dropdown   new Select driver findElement By id  designation       To select its option say  Programmer  you can do  dropdown selectByVisibleText  Programmer      or  dropdown selectByIndex 1    or   dropdown selectByValue  prog

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