Handling Drop-Downs

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What Is The Concept Of Drop-Downs In Selenium?

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If we talk about a website, it has web pages that contains a range of various web elements including buttons, checkbox, drop- downs, text field, hyperlinks and so on...

In this tutorial we are going to explain how to handle drop-down in selenium?

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'Select' Class

Selenium provides 'Select' class for drop downs that are created using HTML SELECT tag.First,we have to import the Select package.

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

Instance of 'Select' Constructor

Declare the drop-down element as an instance of the 'Select' class by creating an object for 'Select' class.

Remember,'Select' is a parameterized constructor and accepts only 'WebElement' as a parameter.

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

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Methods for Controlling the Options of Drop-Down

For controlling the drop-down 'Select' class provides a number of methods as follows :-

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Here is an example code for drop-down =>

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package seleniumexamples;

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.support.ui.Select;

public class HandlingDropDowns {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
       // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        WebDriver driver;
       String baseURL="https://demoqa.com/select-menu";
       
       //Launch the web browser
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","..\\SeleniumJava\\drivers\\chromedriver99.exe");
       driver=new ChromeDriver();
       
       //To maximize the size of window
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
       
       //Navigate through an URL
        driver.get(baseURL);
       
       //Locate the drop down
        Select OldStyleSelectMenu=new Select(driver.findElement(By.id ("oldSelectMenu")));
       
       //Select values from drop down by visible text,by index and by value respectively
        OldStyleSelectMenu.selectByVisibleText("Aqua");
       Thread.sleep(1500);
       OldStyleSelectMenu.selectByIndex(5);
       Thread.sleep(1500);
       OldStyleSelectMenu.selectByValue("red");
       Thread.sleep(1500);
       

       //To get all the options of dropdown and print
       List <WebElement> options=OldStyleSelectMenu.getOptions();
       System.out.println("The all options in this dropdown are : ");
       for(WebElement option:options)
       System.out.println(option.getText());

        //Method to verify if the element is multi-select or not
        if(OldStyleSelectMenu.isMultiple())
           System.out.println("\nThis dropdown supports multi select");
       else
            System.out.println("\nDoesn't support multiselect");       

 

  //Close the current window
  driver.close();

}

}

 

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Output :

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The all options in this dropdown are : 
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Purple
Black
White
Voilet
Indigo
Magenta
Aqua

*Doesn't support multiselect ...

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Refer next page WebDriver-Drag And Drop