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:

	<select id="months" name="months">
	<option value="">Select a month</option>
	<option value="Jan">January</option>
	<option value="Feb">February</option>
	<option value="Mar">March</option>
	</select>

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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);

	package com.example.tests;
	import org.openqa.selenium.By;
	import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
	import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
	public class Dropdown{
	/**
	* Select all options that display text matching the argument.
	* @param driver
	* @param by
	* @param text
	*/
	public static void selectByVisibleText(WebDriver driver, By by, String text){
	Select droplist = new Select(driver.findElement(by));
	droplist.selectByVisibleText(text);
	}
	/**
	* Select all options that have a value matching the argument.
	* @param driver
	* @param by
	* @param value
	*/
	public static void selectByValue(WebDriver driver, By by, String value){
	Select droplist = new Select(driver.findElement(by));
	droplist.selectByValue(value);
	}
	/**
	* Select the option at the given index.
	* @param driver
	* @param by
	* @param index
	*/
	public static void selectByIndex(WebDriver driver, By by, int index){
	Select droplist = new Select(driver.findElement(by));
	droplist.selectByIndex(index);
	}
	}

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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

	package com.example.tests;
	import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
	import org.openqa.selenium.By;
	import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
	import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
	import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;
	import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;
	import org.testng.annotations.Test;
	public class ChangeWindowFocusExample {
	private WebDriver driver;
	@BeforeSuite
	public void setUp() throws Exception {
	driver = new FirefoxDriver();
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	}
	@AfterSuite
	public void tearDown() throws Exception {
	driver.quit();
	}
	@Test
	public void testMethod() throws Exception {
	driver.get("http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp");
	// get an opaque handle to current window that uniquely identifies it within this driver instance.
	String currentwindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
	//click on Try it yourself » link, it will open in new window
	driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@class,'tryitbtn')]")).click();
	//Now we have multiple windows, so get all windows handler and switch focus to non current window
	for (String windownHandler : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
	if (!windownHandler.equals(currentwindow))
	System.out.println("Switching to new window: " + windownHandler);
	//switch to new window
	driver.switchTo().window(windownHandler);
	}
	//maximize the new window to verify focus
	driver.manage().window().maximize();
	//open any url
	driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
	//close current window
	driver.close();
	//switch to previous window
	driver.switchTo().window(currentwindow);
	//open any url to verify focus
	driver.get("http://www.w3schools.com/");
	}
	}

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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.

	package com.example.tests;
	import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
	import org.openqa.selenium.By;
	import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
	import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
	import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
	import org.testng.annotations.AfterSuite;
	import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;
	import org.testng.annotations.Test;
	public class OpenLinkInNewWindowExample {
	private WebDriver driver;
	@BeforeSuite
	public void setUp() throws Exception {
	driver = new FirefoxDriver();
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	}
	@AfterSuite
	public void tearDown() throws Exception {
	driver.quit();
	}
	@Test
	public void testMethod(){
	driver.get("http://www.w3schools.com/");
	Actions action = new Actions(driver);
	action.contextClick(driver.findElement(By.linkText("Learn HTML"))).perform();
	action.sendKeys("w").perform();
	}
	}

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