How to Handle Drop down using Selenium WebDriver with Example
This article will present you with a complete idea about how to interact with drop down in selenium WebDriver.
Select Class in Selenium WebDriver
The ‘Select’ class in Selenium WebDriver is used for selecting and deselecting options in a dropdown.
The objects of Select Class can be initialized by passing the dropdown webElement as parameter to its constructor.
WebElement webElementDropDown = driver.findElement(By.id("DropdownID"));
Select dropdown = new Select(webElementDropDown);A option from drop down can be selected using below methods
- selectByValue
- selectByIndex
- selectByVisibleText
selectByValue
select an option from the drop-down based on its index, starting from 0.
selectByIndex
select an option from the drop-down based on ‘value’ attribute
selectByVisibleText
select an option from the drop-down based on text of the option
Lets understand all these things using below scenario
- Open Chrome Browser
- Open URL: https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/
- Select the option “Performance Testing” from the drop-down menu using ‘selectByValue’ method
- Select the option “ETL Testing” from the drop-down menu using ‘selectByIndex’ method
- Select the option “Functional Testing” from the drop-down menu using ‘selectByVisibleText’ method
- Close the browser
package com.test;
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.support.ui.Select;
import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
import junit.framework.Assert;
public class HandeDropDownDemo {
public static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
// Create a new instance of the Chrome driver
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// Launch the URL
driver.get("https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/");
// Maximize the window
driver.manage().window().maximize();
WebElement webElementDropDown = driver.findElement(By.id("testingDropdown"));
Select dropdown = new Select(webElementDropDown);
// Select the option "Performance Testing" from the drop-down menu using‘selectByValue’ method
dropdown.selectByValue("Performance");
// Select the option "ETL Testing" from the drop-down menu using ‘selectByIndex’ method
dropdown.selectByIndex(3);
// Select the option "Functional Testing" from the drop-down menu using ‘selectByVisibleText’ method
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Functional Testing");
// close the driver
driver.close();
}
}