How to get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver using C#?

Question

I\'m new to both C# and Selenium WebDriver.

I know how to select/click on an option in a drop-down list, but I\'ve a problem before that. Since the drop-down list i

Answer 1

Use IList<IWebElement> instead of List<IWebElement>.

For instance:

IList<IWebElement> options = elem.FindElements(By.TagName("option"));
foreach (IWebElement option in options)
{
    Console.WriteLine(option.Text);
}

Answer 2

To get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver C#:

SelectElement TimeZoneSelect = new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Name("time_zone")));
IList<IWebElement> ElementCount = TimeZoneSelect.Options;
int ItemSize = ElementCount.Count;

for (int i = 0; i < ItemSize; i++)
{
    String ItemValue = ElementCount.ElementAt(i).Text;
    Console.WriteLine(ItemValue);
}

Answer 3

Here is code in Java to get all options in dropdown list.

WebElement sel = myD.findElement(By.name("dropdown_name"));
List<WebElement> lists = sel.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for(WebElement element: lists)  
    {
        String var2 = tdElement.getText();
        System.out.println(var2);
    }

Hope it may helpful to someone.

Answer 4

It seems to be a cast exception. Can you try converting your result to a list i.e. elem.findElements(xx).toList ?

Answer 5

To get all the dropdown values you can use List.

List<string> lstDropDownValues = new List<string>();
int iValuescount = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("\html\....\select\option"))

for(int ivalue = 1;ivalue<=iValuescount;ivalue++)
 {
  string strValue = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("\html\....\select\option["+ ivalue +"]"));
  lstDropDownValues.Add(strValue); 
 }

Answer 6

Make sure you reference the WebDriver.Support.dll assembly to gain access to the OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement dropdown helper class. See this thread for additional details.

Edit: In this screenshot, you can see that I can get the options just fine. Is IE opening up when you create a new InternetExplorerDriver?