How to select value in drop down using Webdriver

How to select value in drop down using Webdriver, By.www.laxmiroy.blogspot.com/

This post will take you through the way you can select the value in a drop down. Webdriver does not have straight forward command "SELECT" which Selenium does.

In below example i will open home page of eBay India and search ipod in Consumer Electronic category. This page has a category drop down in which i will select

Consumer Electronics.

package com.web;

import java.io.File;

import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;

import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class DropDownSelection {

 private static WebDriver driver=null;

 @BeforeTest

 @org.testng.annotations.Parameters({"BROWSER"})

 public void setup(String BROWSER){

  if(BROWSER.equals("FF")){

   File profileDir = new File("C:\\nir");

     FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(profileDir);

     profile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", "same user agent string as above");

     driver= new FirefoxDriver(profile);

   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER); 

  }else if(BROWSER.equals("IE")){

   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);

   driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

  }else if(BROWSER.equals("HU")){

   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);

   driver =new HtmlUnitDriver();

  } else

  {

   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);

   driver = new ChromeDriver();

  }

 }

 @Test

 public void testDropDownSelection() throws InterruptedException{

 

  driver.get("http://www.ebay.in");

  WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.name("_nkw"));

  search.sendKeys("ipod");

   List dd = driver.findElement(By.name("_sacat")).findElements(By.tagName("option"));

   for (WebElement option : dd) {

    System.out.println(option.getText());

    if ("Consumer Electronics".equalsIgnoreCase(option.getText())){

     option.click();

     break;

    }

   }

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Search']")).submit();

   Thread.sleep(5000);

   driver.getPageSource().contains("results found");

  driver.quit();

 }

}

TestNG.xml

Using TestNG suite we will run the test case.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<suite name="webDriver" parallel="tests">

 <listeners>

  <listener class-name="org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter" />

  <listener class-name="org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter" />

 </listeners>

 <test name="WebDriverDemo Witn FF" preserve-order="true">

  <parameter name="BROWSER" value="FF" />

  <classes>

   <class name="com.web.DropDownSelection" />

  </classes>

  </test>

  </b>

</suite>

If above code does not work with you configuration just try another way given below.

 List  options = driver.findElements(By.tagName("option"));

  for (WebElement option : options) {

   if ("Consumer Electronics".equalsIgnoreCase(option.getText())){

    option.click();

   }

      }