Unable to get the text values from the options of the dropdown using WebDriver

Question

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.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class DellDropdown {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
        driver.get("http://www.dell.com/");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName']")).click();
        WebElement countryDropdown=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@class='para_small']"));
        Select selectElement = new Select(countryDropdown);
        selectElement.selectByVisibleText("India");
        if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName' and text()='India']")).getText().equals("India")){
            System.out.println("The dropdown is changed to india");
        }
        WebElement selectedCountryDropdown=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@class='para_small']"));
        selectElement = new Select(selectedCountryDropdown);
        List<WebElement> options=selectElement.getOptions();
        for(int i=0;i<options.size();i++){
            WebElement option=options.get(i);
            String countryName=option.getText();
            boolean selectedValue=option.isSelected();
            System.out.print(countryName);
            System.out.println(selectedValue);
        }
        driver.close();
    }
}

On selecting country India from the country dropdown in the dell site I am not getting the text from the option tag of the dropdown only the selected status is returned.Kindly let me know how to get the text?

Answer 1

EDIT: Rewritting my answer to make it clearer

The problem is that the options in the select dropdown don't contain any texts, when the select dropdown is closed. You only get to see which option is selected:

<select class="para_small" name="" size="20" data-index="75">
<option value="/aa/en/gen/df.aspx?refid=df&s=gen&~ck=cr"></option>
<option value="/al/en/gen/df.aspx?refid=df&s=gen&~ck=cr"></option>
<option value="/dz/fr/gen/df.aspx?refid=df&s=gen&~ck=cr"></option>
...
<option value="/in/en/gen/df.aspx?refid=df&s=gen" selected="selected"></option>
...
</select>

What you need to do is to click and open that dropdown again, after you select "India" and the page gets reloaded.

This is how you can do it:

// the fix
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName']")).click();
// end of fix

And here is your full code with my fix to show you where it is done:

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.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class DellDropdown {

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
        driver.get("http://www.dell.com/");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName']")).click();
        WebElement countryDropdown=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@class='para_small']"));
        Select selectElement = new Select(countryDropdown);
        selectElement.selectByVisibleText("India");
        if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName' and text()='India']")).getText().equals("India")){
            System.out.println("The dropdown is changed to india");
        }

        // the fix
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='ctryName']")).click();
        // end of fix

        WebElement selectedCountryDropdown=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@class='para_small']"));
        selectElement = new Select(selectedCountryDropdown);
        List<WebElement> options=selectElement.getOptions();
        for(int i=0;i<options.size();i++){
            WebElement option=options.get(i);
            String countryName=option.getText();
            boolean selectedValue=option.isSelected();
            System.out.print(countryName);
            System.out.println(selectedValue);
        }
        driver.close();
    }
}

NOTE: Make sure you don't interfere with the brower while the test is running, otherwise your mouse movement will generate an onmouseout event and the dropdown will close and the text values will disappear!

EDIT: To make sure the select dropdown stays open, you can move the mouse to that dropdown in each iteration of the options loop. However that solution slows down the code, so you have to choose what suits you best.

Moving the mouse in the "for" loop:

    for(int i=0;i<options.size();i++){
        //fix
        Actions mouseAction = new Actions(driver);
        mouseAction.moveToElement(selectedCountryDropdown).build().perform();
        //end of fix

        WebElement option=options.get(i);
        String countryName=option.getText();
        boolean selectedValue=option.isSelected();
        System.out.print(countryName);
        System.out.println(selectedValue);
    }