How to select an item from a dropdown list using Selenium WebDriver with java

Question

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 lt WebElement gt  options   select findElements By tagName  Male     for  WebElement option   options        if  Germany  equals option getText             option click           My above code didn t work

User · Answer

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 :)

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

Use -  new Select driver findElement By id  gender     selectByVisibleText  Germany      Of course  you need to  import org openqa selenium support ui Select

User · Answer

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 lt WebElement gt  options   select findElements By tagName  option      for  WebElement option   options     if  Germany  equals option getText   trim       option click

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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 lt 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

User · Answer

WebElement selectgender   driver findElement By id  gender     selectgender sendKeys  Male

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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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WebElement select   driver findElement By id  gender     List lt WebElement gt  options   select findElements By tagName  option     for  WebElement option   options       if  Germany  equals option getText            option click

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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

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