Handling Dropdowns in Selenium Webdriver using Select Method

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Handling Dropdowns in Selenium Webdriver using Select Method

Before starting lets first create a demo page to work with.

HTML Code for demo page

<html>
<head>
<title>Multi select Drop Down List Box</title>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<p>Which device do you own?</p>
<p>Please select it using the below dropdown</p>
<select name="devices">
<option selected> Please select</option>
<option value="iphone">iPhone</option>
<option value="lenovo">Lenovo</option>
<option value="samsung">Samsung</option>
<option value="xiaomi">Xiaomi</option>
<option value="windows">Windows Phone</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
</html>

'Select' class provides us some useful methods to interact with dropdowns to select dropdown option using below methods.

selectByIndex
selectByValue
selectByVisibleText

selectByIndex: This method will select the dropdown option based on the dropdown index.

public class HandleDropDown {
public void selectByIndexExample(WebDriver driver){
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.name("devices"));
Select se=new Select(element);
se.selectByIndex(1); //this will select iPhone
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("D:\\dp.html");
HandleDropDown dp=new HandleDropDown();
dp.selectByIndexExample(driver);
}
}

selectByValue: This method will select the dropdown option based on the value matching with the given argument.

public class HandleDropDown {
public void selectByValueExample(WebDriver driver){
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.name("devices"));
Select se=new Select(element);
se.selectByValue("lenovo"); //This will select Lenovo
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("D:\\dp.html");
HandleDropDown dp=new HandleDropDown();
dp.selectByValueExample(driver);
}
}

selectByVisibleText: This method will select the dropdown option based on displaying text in the dropdown.

public class HandleDropDown {
public void selectByVisibletextExample(WebDriver driver){
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.name("devices"));
Select se=new Select(element);
se.selectByVisibleText("Windows Phone"); //This will select Windows Phone
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("D:\\dp.html");
HandleDropDown dp=new HandleDropDown();
dp.selectByVisibletextExample(driver);
}
}