Selenium WebDriver and DropDown Boxes

Question

If I want to select an option of a dropdown box  there are several ways to do that  I always used     driver findElement By id  selection    sendKeys  Germany      But that didn t work every time  Sometimes another option was selected  So I googled a little bit and found this piece of code which works every time   WebElement select   driver findElement By id  selection         List lt WebElement gt  options   select findElements By tagName  option         for  WebElement option   options            if  Germany  equals option getText                 option click            But that works really really slow  If I have a long list with many items in it  it really takes too much time  So my question is  is there a solution which works every time and is fast

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

Try the Select helper class and see if that makes any difference   String valueToSelect   Germany   WebElement select   driver findElement By id  selection     Select dropDown   new Select select              String selected   dropDown getFirstSelectedOption   getText    if selected equals valueToSelect      do stuff already selected  List lt WebElement gt  Options   dropDown getOptions    for WebElement option Options     if option getText   equals valueToSelect           option click

User · Answer

public static void mulptiTransfer WebDriver driver  By dropdownID  String text  By to           String valuetext   null      WebElement element   locateElement driver  dropdownID  10       Select select   new Select element       List lt WebElement gt  options   element findElements By tagName  option         for  WebElement value  options                 valuetext   value getText            if  valuetext equalsIgnoreCase text                         try                               select selectByVisibleText valuetext                   locateElement driver  to  5  click                                               break                            catch  Exception e                                System out println valuetext    Value not found in Dropdown to Select

User · Answer

I have to struggle to find how to achieve especial those who are new to this tool  like me   C  code   IWebElement ddl   ffDriver FindElement By Id  ddlGoTo      OpenQA Selenium Support UI SelectElement clickthis   new OpenQA Selenium Support UI SelectElement ddl   clickthis SelectByText  Your Text      hope this help others

User · Answer

Example for select an option from the drop down list   Click on drop down list by using id or csspath or xpath or name  I have used id here   driver findElement By id  dropdownlistone    click       To click on drop down list driver findElement By linkText  india    click       To select a data from the drop down list

User · Answer

You can use this   new SelectElement driver FindElement By Id       SelectByText

User · Answer

select   driver FindElement By CssSelector  select uniq id                       selectElement   new SelectElement select                   var optionList                       driver FindElements By CssSelector  select uniq id   gt option                     selectElement SelectByText optionList GenerateRandomNumber 1  optionList Count     Text

User · Answer

For some strange reason the SelectElement for webdriver  version 2 25 1 0  does not properly work with the firefoxdriver  Firefox 15   Sometimes it may not select an option from a dropdownlist  It does  however  seem to work with the chromedriver    This is a link to the chromedriver    just drop it in the bin dir

User · Answer

Try the following   import org openqa selenium support ui Select   Select droplist   new Select driver findElement By Id  selection         droplist selectByVisibleText  Germany

User · Answer

You could try this   IWebElement dropDownListBox   driver findElement By Id  selection     SelectElement clickThis   new SelectElement dropDownListBox   clickThis SelectByText  Germany

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