Selenium WebDriver: Dropdown selection

Selenium has Select class designed to interact with drop down lists. Using it, we can easily choose option by displayed text, index or value.

Example:

Consider a dropdown list as shown below:

Now we just need to pass WebElement into Select Object as shown below

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("months")));

To select option say 'February', we can use any one of the method:

• dropdown.selectByVisibleText("February");
• dropdown.selectByValue("Feb");
• dropdown.selectByIndex(2);

I have created a generic class Dropdown with all 3 methods shown above, we just need to call it.

• Dropdown.selectByVisibleText(driver, By.id("months"), "February");
• Dropdown.selectByValue(driver, By.id("months"), "Feb");
• Dropdown.selectByIndex(driver, By.id("months"), 2);

Selenium WebDriver – Handle Window Focus

Method and Description:

• getWindowHandle() - Return an opaque handle to this window that uniquely identifies it within this driver instance.
• getWindowHandles() - Return a set of window handles which can be used to iterate over all open windows of this WebDriver instance by passing them to switchTo().WebDriver.Options.window()

 

Example:

• Below example opens a page of w3schools.com
• And then clicks on ‘Try it yourself »’ link, which opens a new window.
• Switch to new window, perform some actions on it and then switch back to previous window

Selenium WebDriver – Open a link in a new Window

We can use Action class to open a link in a new window.

Method and Description:

• contextClick(WebElement onElement) - Performs a context-click at middle of the given element.
• perform()- A convenience method for performing the actions without calling build() first.
• sendKeys(java.lang.CharSequence... keysToSend) - Sends keys to the active element.

 

Example:

Below example opens w3schools.com

And click on “Learn HTML” link to open in new window.