How to select get drop down option in Selenium 2

Question

I am converting my selenium 1 code to selenium 2 and can t find any easy way to select a label in a drop down menu or get the selected value of a drop down  Do you know how to do that in Selenium 2   Here are two statements that work in Selenium 1 but not in 2   browser select    path to drop down    Value1    browser getSelectedValue    path to drop down

User · Answer

This is the code to select value from the drop down

The value for selectlocator will be the xpath or name of dropdown box, and for optionLocator will have the value to be selected from the dropdown box.

public static boolean select(final String selectLocator,
        final String optionLocator) {
    try {
        element(selectLocator).clear();
        element(selectLocator).sendKeys(Keys.PAGE_UP);
        for (int k = 0; k <= new Select(element(selectLocator))
                .getOptions().size() - 1; k++) {
            combo1.add(element(selectLocator).getValue());
            element(selectLocator).sendKeys(Keys.ARROW_DOWN);
        }
        if (combo1.contains(optionLocator)) {
            element(selectLocator).clear();
            new Select(element(selectLocator)).selectByValue(optionLocator);
            combocheck = element(selectLocator).getValue();
            combo = "";

            return true;
        } else {
            element(selectLocator).clear();
            combo = "The Value " + optionLocator
                    + " Does Not Exist In The Combobox";
            return false;
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        errorcontrol.add(e.getMessage());
        return false;
    }
}



private static RenderedWebElement element(final String locator) {
    try {

        return (RenderedWebElement) drivers.findElement(by(locator));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        errorcontrol.add(e.getMessage());
        return (RenderedWebElement) drivers.findElement(by(locator));
    }
}

Thanks,

Rekha.

User · Answer

in ruby for constantly using  add follow   module Selenium   module WebDriver     class Element       def select value          self find elements  tag name   gt   option   find do  option            if option text    value             option click               return            end        end     end   end end   and you will be able to select value   browser find element  xpath      xpath   select  Value

User · Answer

you can do like this    public void selectDropDownValue String ValueToSelect          webelement findDropDownValue driver findElements By id  id1         this will find that dropdown       wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOf findDropDownValue          wait till that dropdown appear      super highlightElement findDropDownValue        highlight that dropdown           new Select findDropDownValue  selectByValue ValueToSelect        select that option which u had passed as argument

User · Answer

A similar option to what was posted above by janderson would be so simply use the  GetAttribute method in selenium 2  Using this  you can grab any item that has a specific value or label that you are looking for  This can be used to determine if an element has a label  style  value  etc  A common way to do this is to loop through the items in the drop down until you find the one that you want and select it  In C    int items   driver FindElement By XPath    path to drop Down    Count     for int i   1  i  lt   items  i          string value   driver FindElement By XPath    path to drop Down option   i       GetAttribute  Value1        if value Conatains  Label I am Looking for                  driver FindElement By XPath    path to drop Down option   i       Click               Clicked on the index of the that has your label   value

User · Answer

driver findElement By id  id dropdown menu    click    driver findElement By xpath  xpath from seleniumIDE    click      good luck

User · Answer

This method will return the selected value for the drop down   public static String getSelected visibleText WebDriver driver  String elementType  String value          WebElement element   Webelement Finder webElement Finder driver  elementType  value      Select Selector   new Select element       Selector getFirstSelectedOption        String textval Selector getFirstSelectedOption   getText        return textval        Meanwhile   String textval Selector getFirstSelectedOption     element getText      Will return all the elements in the drop down

User · Answer

Try using   selenium select  id items   label engineering     or  selenium select  id items   index 3

User · Answer

Take a look at the section about filling in forms using webdriver in the selenium documentation and the javadoc for the Select class   To select an option based on the label   Select select   new Select driver findElement By xpath    path to drop down      select deselectAll    select selectByVisibleText  Value1      To get the first selected value   WebElement option   select getFirstSelectedOption

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