How to get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver using C#?

Question

I\'m new to both C# and Selenium WebDriver.

I know how to select/click on an option in a drop-down list, but I\'ve a problem before that. Since the drop-down list i

Answer 1

You can use selenium.Support to use the SelectElement class, this class have a property "Options" that is what you are looking for, I created an extension method to convert your web element to a select element

public static SelectElement AsDropDown(this IWebElement webElement)
{
    return new SelectElement(webElement);
}

then you could use it like this

var elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));
var options = elem.AsDropDown().Options

Answer 2

You can try using the WebDriver.Support SelectElement found in OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.Selected namespace to access the option list of a select list:

IWebElement elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));

SelectElement selectList = new SelectElement(elem);
IList<IWebElement> options = selectList.Options;

You can then access each option as an IWebElement, such as:

IWebElement firstOption = options[0];
Assert.AreEqual(firstOption.GetAttribute("value"), "-09:00");

Answer 3

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("searchDropdownBox")));

select.getOptions();//will get all options as List<WebElement>

Answer 4

 WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("inst_state"));
        Select s = new Select(element);
        List <WebElement> elementcount = s.getOptions();

        System.out.println(elementcount.size());
        for(int i=0 ;i<elementcount.size();i++)
        {
            String value = elementcount.get(i).getText();
            System.out.println(value);

        }

Answer 5

WebElement drop_down =driver.findElement(By.id("Category"));
Select se = new Select(drop_down);
for(int i=0 ;i<se.getOptions().size(); i++)
System.out.println(se.getOptions().get(i).getAttribute("value"));