How can I select checkboxes using the Selenium Java WebDriver

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How can I check the checkboxes using an id or XPath expression  Is there a method similar to select by visibletext for a dropdown  Going through the examples given for all other related questions  I could not find a proper solution that works in a concise way that by few line or method I can check a chekbox or radio button  A sample HTML section is below   lt tbody gt       lt tr gt           lt td gt               lt span class  quot 120927 quot  gt               lt input id  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 0 quot  type  quot checkbox quot  name  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 0 quot   gt               lt label for  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 0 quot  gt housingmoves lt  label gt               lt  span gt           lt  td gt       lt  tr gt        lt tr gt           lt td gt               lt span class  quot 120928 quot  gt               lt input id  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 1 quot  type  quot checkbox quot  name  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 1 quot   gt               lt label for  quot ctl00 CM ctl01 chkOptions 1 quot  gt Seaside  amp  Country Homes lt  label gt               lt  span gt           lt  td gt       lt  tr gt   lt  tbody gt

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Running this approach will in fact toggle the checkbox; .isSelected() in Java/Selenium 2 apparently always returns false (at least with the Java, Selenium, and Firefox versions I tested it with).

The selection of the proper checkbox isn't where the problem lies -- rather, it is in distinguishing correctly the initial state to needlessly avoid reclicking an already-checked box.

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To select a checkbox  use the  quot WebElement quot  class  To operate on a drop-down list  use the  quot Select quot  class

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To get the checkbox for  Seaside  amp  Country Homes   use this XPath     label text    Seaside  amp  Country Homes   preceding-sibling  input  type  checkbox     To get the checkbox for  housingmoves   use this XPath     label text    housingmoves   preceding-sibling  input  type  checkbox     The principle here is to get the label with the text you want  then get the checkbox that is before the label  since that seems to be how your HTML is laid out   To get all checkboxes  you would start a little higher up and then work down  so that is to say get the table  and then get any checkbox within a span     table descendant  span input  type  checkbox

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For a partial match  do the following  getDriver   findElement By cssSelector  quot  lt tag name gt  id   id pattern to look for   quot    click

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It appears that the Internet  Explorer driver does not interact with everything in the same way the other drivers do and checkboxes is one of those cases  The trick with checkboxes is to send the Space key instead of using a click  only needed on Internet  Explorer   like so in C   if  driver Capabilities BrowserName Equals    internet explorer quot        driver findElement By id  quot idOfTheElement quot   SendKeys Keys Space   else     driver findElement By id  quot idOfTheElement quot   Click

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Maybe a good starting point   isChecked    driver findElement  By id  idOftheElement     getAttribute  name    if  isChecked contains  chkOptions 1          driver FindElement By Id  idOfTheElement    Click

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This should help - IWebElement elementToClick   driver findElement By xpath  quot  quot   input contains  id   lstCategory 0    quot     elementToClick Click     You can also pass an id  If you want something like visible text you can  quot find element quot  by name if they have names

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Here is the C  version of Scott Crowe s answer  I found that both IEDriver and ChromeDriver responded to sending a Key Space instead of clicking on the checkbox  if    RemoteWebDriver driver  Capabilities BrowserName     quot firefox quot            Firefox     driver FindElement By Id  quot idOfTheElement quot    Click      else          Chrome and Internet Explorer     driver FindElement By Id  quot idOfTheElement quot    SendKeys Keys Space

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Step 1  The object locator supposed to be used here is XPath  So derive the XPath for those two checkboxes  String housingmoves  quot   label contains text    housingmoves    preceding-sibling  input quot   String season country homes  quot   label contains text    Seaside  amp  Country Homes    preceding-sibling  input quot    Step 2  Perform a click on the checkboxes driver findElement By xpath housingmoves   click    driver findElement By xpath season country homes   click

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Selecting a checkbox is similar to clicking a button  driver findElement By id  quot idOfTheElement quot    click    will do  However  you can also see whether the checkbox is already checked  The following snippet checks whether the checkbox is selected or not  If it is not selected  then it selects  if    driver findElement By id  quot idOfTheElement quot    isSelected            driver findElement By id  quot idOfTheElement quot    click

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I tried with various approaches  but nothing worked  I kept getting  quot Cannot click element quot  or ElementNotVisibleException  I was able to find the input  but I couldn t check it  Now  I m clicking on the div that contains the checkbox and it works with following HTML  CSS based on Bootstrap     foreach  var item in Model           lt tr gt            lt td gt                lt div id  quot  item Id quot  class  quot checkbox quot  gt                    lt label gt  lt input type  quot checkbox quot  class  quot selectone quot  value  quot  item Id quot  gt  lt  label gt                lt  div gt            lt  td gt            lt td val  quot  item Id quot  gt                item Detail           lt  td gt            lt td gt                lt div gt  item Desc               lt  div gt            lt  td gt            lt td gt                Html ActionLink  quot Edit quot    quot Create quot   new   EditId   item Id              lt  td gt        lt  tr gt      This is the code for WebDriver  var table   driver FindElement By TagName  quot table quot     var tds   table FindElements By TagName  quot td quot     var itemTds   tds Where t   gt  t Text    itemtocheck   foreach  var td in itemTds        var CheckBoxTd   tds tds IndexOf td  - 1       var val   td GetAttribute  quot val quot        CheckBoxTd FindElement By Id val   Click       In this approach  I give the item id as id for the div and also add an attribute for td with that id  Once I find the td of the item that needs to be checked  I can find the div before that td and click it  We can also use the XPath query that supports before  here is the example http   learn-automation com how-to-write-dynamic-xpath-in-selenium

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You can use the following code  List lt WebElement gt  checkbox   driver findElements By name  quot vehicle quot       WebElement  checkbox get 0   click     My HTML code was as follows   lt  input type  quot checkbox quot  name  quot vehicle quot  value  quot Bike quot  gt I have a bike lt br  gt   lt  input type  quot checkbox quot  name  quot vehicle quot  value  quot Car quot  gt I have a car lt br  gt

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The below code will first get all the checkboxes present on the page  and then deselect all the checked boxes  List lt WebElement gt  allCheckbox   driver findElements By      xpath  quot   input  type  checkbox   quot      for  WebElement ele   allCheckbox        if  ele isSelected              ele click

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Solution for C   try       IWebElement TargetElement   driver FindElement By XPath xPathVal        if   TargetElement Selected                                    TargetElement SendKeys Keys Space           catch  Exception e

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A solution using WebDriver and C  is below  The key idea is to get the ID of the checkbox from the labels    for  attribute  and use that to identify the checkbox  The code will also set the checkbox state only if it needs to be changed  public void SetCheckboxStatus string value  bool toCheck           Get the label containing the checkbox state     IWebElement labelElement   this Driver FindElement By XPath string Format  quot   label     0    quot  value         string checkboxId   labelElement GetAttribute  quot for quot         IWebElement checkbox   this Driver FindElement By Id checkboxId         if  toCheck    checkbox Selected                checkbox Click

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I found that sometimes JavaScript doesn t allow me to click the checkbox because was working with the element by onchange event   And that sentence helps me to allow the problem   driver findElement By xpath        id  theID      sendKeys Keys SPACE

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If you want to click on all checkboxes at once  a method like this will do  private void ClickAllCheckboxes         foreach  IWebElement e in driver FindElements By xpath  quot   input  type  checkbox   quot                   if  e Selected              e Click

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