how to select an option from dropdown in selenium code example
Example 1: dropdown in selenium
it depends what kind of dropdown
There are 2 dropdowns
1- HTML
2- SELECT
we determine what kind of dropdown it is
-By tagName.We inspect.If it has <select> tag, it means it is <select> dropdown.
-If it is HTML, we can locate and click just as any other web element.
I handle Select type of dropdown by using Select class from Selenium.
- Methods to select from dropdown:
- selectByVisibleText
- selectByValue
- selectByIndex
I verify which option is selected in a dropdown?
- If we want to get the currently selected option,
we use getFirstSelectedOption() method.
-> return type: currently selected option as a web element
--> .getOptions();
-> This method will return all of the options in the <select> web element.
-> return type: List<WebElement>
Example 2: select statement in selenium
package newpackage;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
public class accessDropDown {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver.exe");
String baseURL = "http://demo.guru99.com/test/newtours/register.php";
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(baseURL);
Select drpCountry = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("country")));
drpCountry.selectByVisibleText("ANTARCTICA");
driver.get("http://jsbin.com/osebed/2");
Select fruits = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("fruits")));
fruits.selectByVisibleText("Banana");
fruits.selectByIndex(1);
}
}