How to Select a Dropdown

You all are wondering  how to select/deselect a drop-down value with Selenium WebDriver 

First of all we need to import Select class

1	import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Here the glimpse how we are going to use Select class

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

Let’s consider the following drop-down example:

<select id="mySelect">
<option value="option1">Apple</option>
<option value="option2">Mango</option>
<option value="option3">Orange</option>
</select>

AppleMangoOrange

1. Identify the select HTML element:

1 2	WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect")); Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement);

or pass it directly to the Select element:

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

2. To select an option you can do:

All select/deselect methods will throw NoSuchElementException if no matching option elements are found.
Select by Visible Text (select all options that display text matching the argument):

1	dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Apple");

or

Select by Index (select the option at the given index. This is done by examining the “index” attribute of an element, and not merely by counting):

1	dropdown.selectByIndex(2);

or

Select by Option Value (select all options that have a value matching the argument)

1	dropdown.selectByValue("option2");

3. To deselect an option you can do:

Also, the deselect method will throw UnsupportedOperationException if the SELECT does not support multiple selections

Deselect all selected entries, valid only when the SELECT supports multiple selections:

1	dropdown.deselectAll();

Deselect by Visible Text:

1	dropdown.deselectByVisibleText("Apple");

Deselect by Index

1	dropdown.deselectByIndex(2);

Deselect by value:

1	dropdown.deselectByValue("option2");

4. In order to get the selected option:

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WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect")); Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement); dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Apple"); WebElement option = dropdown.getFirstSelectedOption(); System.out.println(option.getText()); //output "Apple"

5. In order to get the list of options from a drop-down element:

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WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect")); Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement); List options = dropdown.getOptions(); for (WebElement option : options) { System.out.println(option.getText()); //output "option1", "option2", "option3" }