Selenium WebDriver and DropDown Boxes

Question

If I want to select an option of a dropdown box, there are several ways to do that. I always used:

driver.findElem         


        

Answer 1

Try the Select helper class and see if that makes any difference?

String valueToSelect= "Germany";
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection"));
Select dropDown = new Select(select);           
String selected = dropDown.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
if(selected.equals(valueToSelect)) {//do stuff already selected}
List Options = dropDown.getOptions();
for(WebElement option:Options){
  if(option.getText().equals(valueToSelect)){
       option.click();  
  }
}