How to select values in dropdownlist with selenium?

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I am using selenium, TestNG and java with eclipse to perform an automated test. I'm having success with commands like click on a button (selenium.click ("button"), pass values to textboxes (selenium.type ("component", "value") and clicks too, but when it comes with a component type dropdown list (relating to common or asp.net MVC) I can not select the field with the command selenium.select ("field", "value").

To select the values and even the fields, I am using XPath to it, but even so, with the dropdown list can not, or can partially.

When a drop-down list accepts the value I type, I can use the selenium.click but if not, nothing I've tried so far works.

Devi Kiran · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-08 05:59:07Z

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using webdriver you can do it with Select class i have posted a code which was working below please have a look on that,Select Class had api to select the drop down values by its index as well as value,have a look on Select api for more info

   public static void dropdown() 
    {
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://demosthenes.info/blog/166/HTML-Forms-Drop-down-Menus");
    Select sele = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("state")));
    sele.selectByIndex(1);
    }

answered Jul 8, 2013 at 5:59

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Lucas Over a year ago

Sorry this is not gonna work. Select class only works for elements with <select> tags which is not the case for asp.net. I am trying to find the solution for this problem as well, but no luck so far...

Devi Kiran Over a year ago

@Lucas if possible please post your html dom so that we can also help you to solve the problem

Devdun · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-15 07:39:52Z

There are several ways to select elements from dropdown list. Below are some of them you can keep them as common drop-down operation and call what ever method you need.

//select the dropdown using "select by visible text"
        public static void dropDownSelectByText(WebElement webElement, String VisibleText){
            Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
            selObj.selectByVisibleText(VisibleText);
        }

//select the dropdown using "select by index"
public static void dropDownSelectByIndex(WebElement webElement, int IndexValue){
    Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
    selObj.selectByIndex(IndexValue);
}

//select the dropdown using "select by value"
public static void dropDownSelectByValue(WebElement webElement, String Value){
    Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
    selObj.selectByValue(Value);
}

You can call above methods like

CommonPageOperations.dropDownSelectByValue(selectSubClientFromDropDownXpath,strSubClientName);

Drop down list appear only if mouse move to specific location, Then you have to use Actions as well

public void mouseMoveToExpandIcon(){
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);
        action.moveToElement(expandButtonXpath).perform();
    }

Vince Bowdren · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-09 09:56:24Z

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

edited Jul 9, 2013 at 9:56

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answered Jul 8, 2013 at 9:55

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testing · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 05:51:25Z

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Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
WebElement dBox1= (new    WebDriverWait(driver,10)).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("selection""))).    selectByVisibleText("");
actions.moveToElement(dBox1);
actions.click();
actions.perform();

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 5:51

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Kodiyan · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-22 20:41:00Z

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You have to use Select in selenium to select from the drop down value.

//by ID

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
new Select (driver.findElement(By.id("usState"))).selectByVisibleText("FL");

//by XPath

new Select (driver.findElement(By.xpath("xPath for dropdown"))).selectByVisibleText("FL");

answered Apr 22, 2014 at 20:41

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