How can I select an item from a drop down list like gender (eg male, female) using Selenium WebDriver with Java?
I have tried this
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("Male"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
option.click();
}
My above code didn't work.
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WebElement selectgender = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
selectgender.sendKeys("Male");
public class checkBoxSel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
EventFiringWebDriver dr = null ;
dr = new EventFiringWebDriver(driver);
dr.get("http://www.google.co.in/");
dr.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
dr.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail")).click() ;
Select sel = new Select(driver.findElement(By.tagName("select")));
sel.selectByValue("fil");
}
}
I am using GOOGLE LOGIN PAGE to test the seletion option. The above example was to find and select language "Filipino" from the drop down list. I am sure this will solve the problem.
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
option.click();
}
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
<html>
<body>
<select id = "designation">
<option value = "MD">MD</option>
<option value = "prog"> Programmer </option>
<option value = "CEO"> CEO </option>
</option>
</select>
<body>
</html>
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");
Happy Coding :)
To find a particular dropdown box element:
Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender")));
To get the list of all the elements contained in the dropdown box:
for(int j=1;j<3;j++)
System.out.println(gender.getOptions().get(j).getText());
To select it through visible text displayed when you click on it:
gender.selectByVisibleText("Male");
To select it by index (starting at 0):
gender.selectByIndex(1);
Tagname you should mentioned like that "option", if text with space we can use this method it should work.
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
if("Germany".equals(option.getText().trim()))
option.click();
}
You can use 'Select' class of selenium WebDriver as posted by Maitreya. Sorry, but I'm a bit confused about, for selecting gender from drop down why to compare string with "Germany". Here is the code snippet,
Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender")));
gender.selectByVisibleText("Male/Female");
Import import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; after adding the above code.
Now gender will be selected which ever you gave ( Male/Female).
Use -
new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender"))).selectByVisibleText("Germany");
Of course, you need to import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
Google "select item selenium webdriver" brings up How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby as first result. This is not Java, but you should be able to translate it without too much work. https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1355/what-is-the-correct-way-to-select-an-option-using-seleniums-python-webdriver is in the top 5, again not Java but the API is very similar.
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