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user1754106
user1754106

Reputation:

How to select an item from a dropdown list using Selenium WebDriver with java?

How can I select an item from a drop down list like gender (eg male, female) using Selenium WebDriver with Java?

I have tried this

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("Male"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
    if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
        option.click();   
}

My above code didn't work.

Upvotes: 43

Views: 322399

Answers (9)

Rishi369
Rishi369

Reputation: 27

To find a particular dropdown box element:

Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender")));

To get the list of all the elements contained in the dropdown box:

for(int j=1;j<3;j++)
    System.out.println(gender.getOptions().get(j).getText());

To select it through visible text displayed when you click on it:

gender.selectByVisibleText("Male");

To select it by index (starting at 0):

gender.selectByIndex(1);

Upvotes: 1

Abhishek Singh
Abhishek Singh

Reputation: 10229

Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("identifier")));

Once this is done you can select the required value in 3 ways. Consider an HTML file like this

<html>
<body>
<select id = "designation">
<option value = "MD">MD</option>
<option value = "prog"> Programmer </option>
<option value = "CEO"> CEO </option>
</option>
</select>
<body>
</html>

Now to identify dropdown do

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("designation")));

To select its option say 'Programmer' you can do

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

or

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

or

dropdown.selectByValue("prog");

Happy Coding :)

Upvotes: 23

Anand Somani
Anand Somani

Reputation: 801

WebElement selectgender = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
selectgender.sendKeys("Male");

Upvotes: 3

Mene
Mene

Reputation: 3799

Google "select item selenium webdriver" brings up How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby as first result. This is not Java, but you should be able to translate it without too much work. https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1355/what-is-the-correct-way-to-select-an-option-using-seleniums-python-webdriver is in the top 5, again not Java but the API is very similar.

Upvotes: 3

MKod
MKod

Reputation: 823

public class checkBoxSel {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

         WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
         EventFiringWebDriver dr = null ;


         dr = new EventFiringWebDriver(driver);
         dr.get("http://www.google.co.in/");

         dr.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

         dr.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail")).click() ;

         Select sel = new Select(driver.findElement(By.tagName("select")));
         sel.selectByValue("fil");

    }

}

I am using GOOGLE LOGIN PAGE to test the seletion option. The above example was to find and select language "Filipino" from the drop down list. I am sure this will solve the problem.

Upvotes: 0

some_other_guy
some_other_guy

Reputation: 3394

Use -

new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender"))).selectByVisibleText("Germany");

Of course, you need to import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Upvotes: 44

Sathish
Sathish

Reputation: 51

Tagname you should mentioned like that "option", if text with space we can use this method it should work.

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));

for (WebElement option : options) {

if("Germany".equals(option.getText().trim()))

 option.click();   
}

Upvotes: 5

Anand Somani
Anand Somani

Reputation: 801

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
   if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
       option.click();   
}

Upvotes: 1

Deepu
Deepu

Reputation: 113

You can use 'Select' class of selenium WebDriver as posted by Maitreya. Sorry, but I'm a bit confused about, for selecting gender from drop down why to compare string with "Germany". Here is the code snippet,

Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender")));
gender.selectByVisibleText("Male/Female");

Import import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; after adding the above code. Now gender will be selected which ever you gave ( Male/Female).

Upvotes: 3

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