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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