SELENIUM Dropdown Handle using selenium WebDriver

DropDown Handle using selenium:

In Web page Dropdown / ListBox consider as a “Select” object in WebDriver.

We declare the Dropdown WebElement as an instance / object of the “Select” class to select any option from DropDown.

Using “select” method we select and deselect options from DropDown / ListBox.

“Select” is a class which is provided by Selenium WebDriver to perform multiple operations on DropDown WebElement object and Multiple Select object in Web Page.

In Selenium select / deselect methods will throw NoSuchElementException if no matching option elements are found in Web Page.

Import below Package to Handle DropDown:

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

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

Dropdown Html Code:

&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
   &lt;select id = "Language"&gt;
    &lt;option value = "val1"&gt;Java&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value = "val2"&gt;C++&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;option value = "val3"&gt;Python&lt;/option&gt;
   &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

<html>

<body>

<option value = "val3">Python</option>

</select>

<body>

</html>

Code to Select Dropdown:

1) Identify dropdown Without WebElement:

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

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

2) Identify dropdown Using WebElement:

WebElement Lang_Dropdown = driver.findElement(By.id("Language "));

Select dropdown = new Select(Lang_Dropdown);

WebElement Lang_Dropdown = driver.findElement(By.id("Language "));

Select dropdown = new Select(Lang_Dropdown);

Different Dropdown option Select Methods:

selectByVisibleText Method.
selectByIndex Method.
selectByValue Method.

1. selectByVisibleText Method

It takes a parameter of the string which is a value of the select element and perform select operation.

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

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Java");

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

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Java");

2. selectByIndex Method

It fetch a parameter of int which is the index value of Select element and perform select operation.

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

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

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

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

3. selectByValue Method

It takes a element with string using value and perform select operation.

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

dropdown.selectByValue("Value1");

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

dropdown.selectByValue("Value1");

Different Dropdown option De-Select Methods:

deselectByVisibleText Method.
deselectByValue Method.
deselectByIndex Method.
deselectAll Method.
isMultiple Method.

1. Deselect By Visible Text:

When you wants to remove selection from list box for particular option then you can use webdriver’s deselectByVisibleText() method.

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

dropdown.deselectByText("Test");

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

dropdown.deselectByText("Test");

2. Deselect By Value:

You can also deselect option from list box by using value of List Box.

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

dropdown.deselectByValue("Test");

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

dropdown.deselectByValue("Test");

3. Deselect By Index:

Given bellow syntax will remove selection by index = 1 index available in Integer format.

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

dropdown.deselectByIndex(1);

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

dropdown.deselectByIndex(1);

4. DeselectAll:

Using this method able to Deselect all Selected options from Multi Select Dropdown all options will be UnSelected.

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

dropdown.deselectAll();

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

dropdown.deselectAll();

5. isMultiple:

Methods check element support multiple selecting options at the same time or not verify Functionality can we check / select multiple option’s.

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

dropdown.isMultiple();

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

dropdown.isMultiple();

Example of Dropdown with Select / De-Select / isMultiple Method:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class DropDown_Handle {

   public static void main(String[] args) {                       

      System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");                       

      WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();                       

      driver.get("https://www.stqatools.com");

      // Identify Dropdown Without WebElement
      Select Country = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("country")));                       

      // Select Country by selectByVisibleText
      Country.selectByVisibleText("India");                       

      // Select Country by selectByIndex
      Country.selectByIndex(1);                                               

      // Select Country by selectByValue
      Country.selectByValue("91");                       

      // Deselect Country deselectByVisibleText
      Country.deselectByVisibleText("India");           

      // Deselect Country deselectByIndex
      Country.deselectByIndex(1);                       

      // Deselect Country deselectByValue
      Country.deselectByValue("91");                      

      // Deselect All selected Dropdowns
      Country.deselectAll();         

      // Check dropdown have MultiSelect option or not?
      Country.isMultiple();   
    }
}

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

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

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class DropDown_Handle {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("https://www.stqatools.com");

// Identify Dropdown Without WebElement

Select Country = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("country")));

// Select Country by selectByVisibleText

Country.selectByVisibleText("India");

// Select Country by selectByIndex

Country.selectByIndex(1);

// Select Country by selectByValue

Country.selectByValue("91");

// Deselect Country deselectByVisibleText

Country.deselectByVisibleText("India");

// Deselect Country deselectByIndex

Country.deselectByIndex(1);

// Deselect Country deselectByValue

Country.deselectByValue("91");

// Deselect All selected Dropdowns

Country.deselectAll();

// Check dropdown have MultiSelect option or not?

Country.isMultiple();

}

Example of Select Multiple options from Multi Select Dropdown handle using Selenium:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class Multi_Select_DropDown {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

       System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");

       WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();                       

       driver.get("http:www.stqatools.com");                       

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

       hobby.selectByVisibleText("Cricket");                       

       hobby.selectByIndex(1);                       

       hobby.selectByValue("TT");
    }
}

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

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

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class Multi_Select_DropDown {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http:www.stqatools.com");

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

hobby.selectByVisibleText("Cricket");

hobby.selectByIndex(1);

hobby.selectByValue("TT");

}

Example of Get All Months from dropdown & print:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class Print_All_DropDown_Options {           

    public static void main(String[] args) {

       System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");

       WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

       driver.get("http:www.stqatools.com");

       WebElement month_dropdown = driver.findElement(By.id("month"));

       Select month = new Select(month_dropdown);

       List&lt;WebElement&gt; dropdown = month.getOptions();

       for (int i = 0; i &lt; dropdown.size(); i++) {

       String drop_down_values = dropdown.get(i).getText();

       System.out.println("dropdown values are " + drop_down_values);
     }
  }
}

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

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

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class Print_All_DropDown_Options {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette", "C:\\geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http:www.stqatools.com");

WebElement month_dropdown = driver.findElement(By.id("month"));

Select month = new Select(month_dropdown);

List<WebElement> dropdown = month.getOptions();

for (int i = 0; i < dropdown.size(); i++) {

String drop_down_values = dropdown.get(i).getText();

System.out.println("dropdown values are " + drop_down_values);

}