How to use multiple checkbox in selenium c#

A group of check boxes is created by giving two or more checkboxes the same control name. In the above example, the checkbox group control name is “color”. However, each checkbox in the group has a different associated value specified by the value attribute.

When a user selects (checks) a checkbox, its value gets assigned as the current value of the checkbox group’s control name. A checkbox group’s control name may conceivably get paired with several current values if the user selects more than one checkbox.

Let us consider below screen which show the example of check boxes.

Source code for check boxes shown in above image is:

My favourite colors are:
"checkbox" name="color" value="red"> Red
"checkbox" name="color" value="yellow"> Yellow
"checkbox" name="color" value="blue"> Blue
"checkbox" name="color" value="orange"> Orange
"checkbox" name="color" value="green"> Green
"checkbox" name="color" value="purple"> Purple

By observing above HTML code, we can see that, name of all the check boxes is same. So what we can do is, get the list of all check boxes by using attribute name and iterate over it. If found matching, then click on it.

Below piece of code illustrate the same. –

package learnAboutActionsClass;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class CheckBoxInSelenium {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.navigate().to("http://www.ironspider.ca/forms/checkradio.htm");
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
List < WebElement > ListOfCheckBoxes = driver.findElements(By.name("color"));
System.out.println("Number of check boxes pesent are: " + ListOfCheckBoxes.size());
for (int i = 0; i < ListOfCheckBoxes.size(); i++) {
if (ListOfCheckBoxes.get(i).getAttribute("value").equalsIgnoreCase("Red")) {
ListOfCheckBoxes.get(i).click();
}
}
}
}

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Rijwan Ansari5y ago
Accepted answer
Hi,

Check if this can help
https://www.guru99.com/checkbox-and-radio-button-webdriver.html
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Anusha Singh5y ago
Thanks Susan..[ my qus is i have 8 checkbox in my UI ..i want like when page is loading then first 5 check box should be uncheck and remaing 3 checkbox should be check ..how to do this ..i have written the blow code]

here i want the code in selenium c# ,,i have written this code but getting an error on this
for(int i=0;i"formFieldCheckBox"));i++)
{
  if(i>=5)
{
  if(!driver.findElements(By.Class("formFieldCheckBox")).get(i).isSelected())
driver.findElements(By.Class("formFieldCheckBox")).get(i).click();
}
else
{
  if(driver.findElements(By.Class("formFieldCheckBox")).get(i).isSelected())
driver.findElements(By.Class("formFieldCheckBox")).get(i).click();
}
}
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Susan Murray5y ago
A group of check boxes is created by giving two or more checkboxes the same control name. In the above example, the checkbox group control name is “color”. However, each checkbox in the group has a different associated value specified by the value attribute.

When a user selects (checks) a checkbox, its value gets assigned as the current value of the checkbox group’s control name. A checkbox group’s control name may conceivably get paired with several current values if the user selects more than one checkbox.

Let us consider below screen which show the example of check boxes.

Source code for check boxes shown in above image is:
My favourite colors are:


"checkbox" name="color" value="red"> Red

"checkbox" name="color" value="yellow"> Yellow

"checkbox" name="color" value="blue"> Blue

"checkbox" name="color" value="orange"> Orange

"checkbox" name="color" value="green"> Green

"checkbox" name="color" value="purple"> Purple
By observing above HTML code, we can see that, name of all the check boxes is same. So what we can do is, get the list of all check boxes by using attribute name and iterate over it. If found matching, then click on it.

Below piece of code illustrate the same. –
package learnAboutActionsClass;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class CheckBoxInSelenium {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.navigate().to("http://www.ironspider.ca/forms/checkradio.htm");
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        List < WebElement > ListOfCheckBoxes = driver.findElements(By.name("color"));
        System.out.println("Number of check boxes pesent are: " + ListOfCheckBoxes.size());
        for (int i = 0; i < ListOfCheckBoxes.size(); i++) {
            if (ListOfCheckBoxes.get(i).getAttribute("value").equalsIgnoreCase("Red")) {
                ListOfCheckBoxes.get(i).click();
            }
        }
    }
}
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