How to Handle Dropdown in Selenium WebDriver

In this article, you will learn how to handle drop-downs in Selenium WebDriver.

Select Class in Selenium WebDriver:
The 'Select' class in Selenium WebDriver is used for selecting and deselecting option in a dropdown. The objects of Select type can be initialized by passing the dropdown webElement as parameter to its constructor.

WebElement dropDownTest = driver.findElement(By.id("dropdown"));
Select dropDown = new Select(dropDownTest);

How to select an option from drop-down menu?

WebDriver provides three ways to select an option from the drop-down menu.

1. selectByIndex - It is used to select an option based on its index, beginning with 0.

2. selectByValue - It is used to select an option based on its 'value' attribute.

3. selectByVisibleText - It is used to select an option based on the text over the option.

Below is the complete example given, Lets first look single dropdown list.
With below example, we will understand:
--Different methods to select values from drop down
--How to get first selected item
--Print all values from dropdown

public class DropDownDemo {



     public WebDriver driver;



     public void launch() throws InterruptedException {



          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",

                   "C:\\Users\\Hitendra\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32 (1)\\chromedriver.exe");

          driver = new ChromeDriver();

          driver.manage().window().maximize();

          driver.get("https://www.automationtestinginsider.com/2019/08/student-registration-form.html");

          Thread.sleep(2000);

     }



     public void dropDownDemo() throws InterruptedException {



          WebElement bDay = driver.findElement(By.id("Birthday_Day"));

          WebElement bMonth = driver.findElement(By.id("Birthday_Month"));

          WebElement bYear = driver.findElement(By.id("Birthday_Year"));



          Select selectDay = new Select(bDay);

          Select selectMonth = new Select(bMonth);

          Select selectYear = new Select(bYear);



          selectDay.selectByIndex(4); // 4

          Thread.sleep(1000);

          selectMonth.selectByValue("February");

          selectMonth.selectByValue("January");

          Thread.sleep(1000);

          selectYear.selectByVisibleText("1990");

          Thread.sleep(1000);



          WebElement firstSelectedItem = selectMonth.getFirstSelectedOption();

          System.out.println(firstSelectedItem.getText());



          List<WebElement> monthList = selectMonth.getOptions();



          System.out.println("total Months: " + monthList.size()); // 13



          for (WebElement ele : monthList) {

              System.out.println(ele.getText());

          }

     }



     public void tearDown() {

          driver.close();

     }



     public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {



          DropDownDemo obj = new DropDownDemo();

          obj.launch();

          obj.dropDownDemo();

          obj.tearDown();

     }

}

Multi select dropdown list:

With below example, we will understand:
--Deselect method
--Method getAllSelectedOptions  Print all selected options
--Compare with actual List with expected list

public class DropDownDemo1 {



     public WebDriver driver;



     public void launch() throws InterruptedException {



          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",

                   "C:\\Users\\Hitendra\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32 (1)\\chromedriver.exe");

          driver = new ChromeDriver();

          driver.manage().window().maximize();

          driver.get("https://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/basic-select-dropdown-demo.html");

          Thread.sleep(2000);

     }



     public void dropDownDemo() throws InterruptedException {



          WebElement multiSelectList = driver.findElement(By.id("multi-select"));



          Select selectCity = new Select(multiSelectList);



          selectCity.selectByIndex(0); // 4

          Thread.sleep(1000);

          selectCity.selectByValue("Florida");

          // selectCity.deselectByValue("Florida");

          // selectCity.deselectByValue("Florida");

          // selectMonth.selectByValue("January");

          Thread.sleep(1000);

          selectCity.selectByVisibleText("New Jersey");

          Thread.sleep(1000);



          List<String> expectedList = new ArrayList<>();

          expectedList.add("California");

          expectedList.add("New Jersey");

          expectedList.add("Florida");



          List<String> actualList = new ArrayList<>();



          List<WebElement> allSelectedoptions = selectCity.getAllSelectedOptions();



          for (WebElement ele : allSelectedoptions) {

              actualList.add(ele.getText());

              System.out.println(ele.getText());



          }



          Collections.sort(expectedList);

          Collections.sort(actualList);

          boolean result = actualList.equals(expectedList);

          System.out.println("The result of Comparison is:" + result);

     }


     public void tearDown() {

          driver.close();

     }


     public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {



          DropDownDemo1 obj = new DropDownDemo1();

          obj.launch();

          obj.dropDownDemo();

          obj.tearDown();

     }

}

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