Thursday 10 November 2016

How to Select a Dropdown in selenium webdriver using java

To Select a dropdown value with selenium webdriver you have to create a Select Element.

First import a package

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Setting a WebElement dropdown to the select dropdown menu using Xpath

WebElement dropdown=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div
/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div/select"));

Creating a Select Element and passing WebElement as a parameter
Select sel=new Select(dropdown);

Now there are 3 ways in which we can select option from select dropdown menu

1. SelectByVisibileText - sel.selectByVisibileText("hey");

2. SelectByIndex - sel.selectByIndex(1); //1 will select 1st option

3. SelectByValue - sel.selectByValue("Faculty");

Script

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

public class select1{

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:/Users/Desktop/chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("any website which have select dropdown");
WebElement a=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div/div[2]
/div[1]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div/select"));
Select sel=new Select(a);
sel.selectByIndex(1);
System.out.println(sel.getText());
}
}