How do you tell if a checkbox is selected in Selenium for Java

Question

I am using Selenium in Java to test the checking of a checkbox in a webapp  Here s the code  private boolean isChecked  private WebElement e   I declare e and assign it to the area where the checkbox is  isChecked   e findElement By tagName  quot input quot    getAttribute  quot checked quot   equals  quot true quot     What is weird is that getAttribute  quot checked quot   returns null and therefore a NullPointerException In the HTML for the checkbox  there is no checked attribute displayed  However  isn t it the case that all input elements have a checked    quot true quot  so this code should work

User · Accepted Answer

If you are using Webdriver then the item you are looking for is Selected.

Often times in the render of the checkbox doesn't actually apply the attribute checked unless specified.

So what you would look for in Selenium Webdriver is this

isChecked = e.findElement(By.tagName("input")).Selected;

As there is no Selected in WebDriver Java API, the above code should be as follows:

isChecked = e.findElement(By.tagName("input")).isSelected();

User · Answer

The mechanism of selenium framework   Here selenium make request to the its server and fetch first subelement with tagname input  WebElement e   e findElement By tagName  input       Than you try to receive attribute on that element  object attribute   e getAttribute  checked     So either use   findElement By attribute  checked     or use  findElement By xpath    input  checked  true       P S  I m not familiar with java s equivalent of selenium api so some method may be named slightly different

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Declare a variable  Store the checked property for the radio button  Have a if condition    Lets assume  private string isChecked   private webElement e   isChecked  e findElement By tagName  input    getAttribute  checked    if isChecked   true        else         Hope this answer will be help for you  Let me know  if have any clarification in CSharp Selenium web driver

User · Answer

I would do it with cssSelector      for all checked checkboxes driver findElements By cssSelector  input checked type  checkbox          for all notchecked checkboxes driver findElements By cssSelector  input not  checked  type  checkbox         Maybe that also helps  -

User · Answer

if checkBox getAttribute  checked      null     if Checked      checkBox click                              to Uncheck it    You can also add an and statement to be sure if checked is true

User · Answer

if    driver findElement By id  idOfTheElement    isSelected            driver findElement By id  idOfTheElement    click

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For the event where there are multiple check-boxes from which you d like to select deselect only a few  the following work with the Chrome Driver  somehow failed for IE Driver    NOTE  My check-boxes didn t have an ID associated with them  which would be the best way to identify them according to the Documentation   Note the   sign at the beginning of the statement   if  driver findElement By xpath    input  type  checkbox  and  name   lt name gt       isSelected         driver findElement By xpath    input  type  checkbox  and  name    lt name gt       click

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public boolean getcheckboxvalue String element                   WebElement webElement driver findElement By xpath element            return webElement isSelected

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