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Koray Tugay
Koray Tugay

Reputation: 23800

How to get the selected value from a combobox using Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2)?

Assume I have this html code: 

<select id="superior" size="1" name="superior">
    <option value=""></option>
    <option value="c.i.e.m.md.Division_1">DIVISION007</option>
    <option selected="selected" value="c.i.e.m.md.Division_$$_javassist_162_119">MyDivision</option>
    <option value="c.i.e.m.md.Division_121">MyDivision4</option>
    <option value="c.i.e.m.md.Division_122">MyDivision5</option>
</select>

So this is a combo box with

id=superior

and currently value MyDivision is selected.

Using Selenium WebDriver I am trying to get the selected value, but no success.

I tried:

String option = this.ebtamTester.firefox.findElement(By.id(superiorId)).getText();
return option;

But this returns me all the values in the combobox.

Help please?

Edit:

WebElement comboBox = ebtamTester.firefox.findElement(By.id("superior"));
SelectElement selectedValue = new SelectElement(comboBox);
String wantedText = selectedValue.getValue();

Upvotes: 10

Views: 58802

Answers (6)

Farside
Farside

Reputation: 1

Based off @Micheal's answer this would be easier to work with following command:

string  selectedValue = new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Id("Year"))).SelectedOption.Text;

Upvotes: -1

Peter Kerr
Peter Kerr

Reputation: 1739

selectedValue.SelectedOption.Text; will get you the text of the selected item. Does anyone know how to get the selected value.

To get the selected value use

selectedValue.SelectedOption.GetAttribute("value");

Upvotes: 4

Zain Ali
Zain Ali

Reputation: 15973

Using XPath in c#

  string selectedValue=driver.FindElement(By.Id("superior")).FindElements(By.XPath("./option[@selected]"))[0].Text;

Upvotes: 3

Ripon Al Wasim
Ripon Al Wasim

Reputation: 37796

In Java, the following code should work nicely:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
Select comboBox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("superior")));
String selectedComboValue = comboBox.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
System.out.println("Selected combo value: " + selectedComboValue);

As MyDivision is selected currently, the above code would print "MyDivision"

Upvotes: 9

some_other_guy
some_other_guy

Reputation: 3404

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()

Upvotes: 3

Michael Bautista
Michael Bautista

Reputation: 1220

This is written in C#, but it shouldn't be hard to transition it over to any other language you're using:

IWebElement comboBox = driver.FindElement(By.Id("superior"));
SelectElement selectedValue = new SelectElement(comboBox);
string wantedText = selectedValue.SelectedOption.Text;

SelectElement requires you to use OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI, so at the top, type

using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

Edit:

I suppose for you, instead of 'driver' you would use

IWebElement comboBox = this.ebtamTester.firefox.FindElement(By.Id("superior"));

Upvotes: 19

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