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

Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below

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

Once this is done you can select the required value in 3 ways. Consider an HTML file like this

MD
 Programmer 
 CEO 

Now to identify dropdown do

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

To select its option say 'Programmer' you can do

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

or

 dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

or

 dropdown.selectByValue("prog");

Happy Coding :)