How do you click on a checkbox from a list of checkboxes via Selenium/Webdriver in Java?

Question

I\'m using Selenium 2 (Webdriver) for automating tests on a webpage. However I wonder if there is way to check checkbox from the list of checkboxes using webdriver framework

Answer 1

If you already know the id of the checkbox, you can use this method to click select it:

string checkboxXPath = "//input[contains(@id, 'lstCategory_0')]"
IWebElement elementToClick = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(checkboxXPath));
elementToClick.Click();

Assuming that you have several checkboxes on the page with similar ids, you may need to change 'lstCategory_0' to something more specific.

This is written in C#, but it shouldn't be difficult to adapt to other languages. Also, if you edit your post with some more information, I can fine-tune this example better.

Let me know if this works!

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I've visited the site and successfully interacted with the checkboxes in the dropdown widget using this code:

/** Set XPath Variables **/
string dropdownWidgetXPath = "//span[contains(@id, 'selInd')]";
string checkboxXPath = "//input[contains(@id, 'selInd')]";

/** Navigate to the page **/
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.jobserve.com/us/en/Job-Search/");

/** Click the dropdown widget **/
IWebElement dropdownWidgetElement = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(dropdownWidgetXPath));
dropdownWidgetElement.Click();

/** Identify all checkboxes present **/
var allCheckboxes = driver.FindElements(By.XPath(checkboxXPath));

/** Click each checkbox and wait so that results are visible **/
foreach(IWebElement checkbox in allCheckboxes)
{
     checkbox.Click();
     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}

Answer 2

By id of the checkbox you could use following code:

IWebElement elementToClick = driver.FindElement(By.ID(ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Add_lstCategory_0));
elementToClick.Click();

If you don't know id then use below code by xpath:

String checkbox = "//input[@type='checkbox']"
IWebElement elementToClick = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(checkbox ));
elementToClick.Click();

Answer 3

This is how I check and uncheck all my boxes, it has to have an Id or class.

Id example:

driver.FindElement(By.Id("someid")).click();

ClassName examaple:

driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("someid")).click();

Its short, its sweet and more importantly it works.

Answer 4

The code in selenium is simple:

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeToHoldOn)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists((By.ClassName("ckb"))));
IWebElement dropdownWidgetElement = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("ckb"));
dropdownWidgetElement.Click();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
var allCheckboxes = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("ckb"));
foreach (IWebElement checkbox in allCheckboxes) {
  checkbox.Click();
  System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(250);
}

Answer 5

In Selenium webdriver you can do it like this :

All the check-boxes must be having some unique identifier then you can simply find it out by Id If they dont have a unique id (This is what I encountered while testing a web application) then it must be having some title and name attribute (or some other attribute).

Then you can try this :

driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='mycheckboxgroup' and @title='movies']")).click();    
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='mycheckboxgroup' and @title='songs']")).click();

Answer 6

Java, Clicking on multiple checkboxes at a time using the loop.

**Sample Xpath :**

CheckBox1 Xpath : //input[@class='mycheck' and @id='1']
CheckBox2 Xpath : //input[@class='mycheck' and @id='2']

Get all the elements checkbox using findelements:

List WebElement ele = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@class='mycheck']"));

Make the Xpath as string by leaving the ID and assign the ID as i.

for(int i=1; i<=ele.size(); i++) { driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='mycheck' and @id='" +  + i + "']")).click(); }

i gets the value for every loop and the xpath matches the checkbox and click's it.