Selenium WebDriver and DropDown Boxes

Question

If I want to select an option of a dropdown box, there are several ways to do that. I always used:

driver.findElem         


        

Answer 1

You can use this

(new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Id(""))).SelectByText("");

Answer 2

public static void mulptiTransfer(WebDriver driver, By dropdownID, String text, By to)
{   
    String valuetext = null;
    WebElement element = locateElement(driver, dropdownID, 10);
    Select select = new Select(element);
    List<WebElement> options = element.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for (WebElement value: options) 
    {
        valuetext = value.getText();
        if (valuetext.equalsIgnoreCase(text))
        {
            try
            {
                select.selectByVisibleText(valuetext);
                locateElement(driver, to, 5).click();                           
                break;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.out.println(valuetext + "Value not found in Dropdown to Select");
            }       
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

You could try this:

IWebElement dropDownListBox = driver.findElement(By.Id("selection"));
SelectElement clickThis = new SelectElement(dropDownListBox);
clickThis.SelectByText("Germany");

Answer 4

Example for select an option from the drop down list:

Click on drop down list by using id or csspath or xpath or name. I have used id here.

driver.findElement(By.id("dropdownlistone")).click(); // To click on drop down list
driver.findElement(By.linkText("india")).click(); // To select a data from the drop down list.