Handling of DropDown using Selenium Webdriver

Handling of Dropdown:

Selenium provides us with a “Select”  class to perform operations on dropdown. This class can be found under the Selenium’s Support.UI.Select package.

Element	Command	Description
Drop-Down Box	selectByVisibleText()/ deselectByVisibleText()	selects/deselects an option by its displayed text
	selectByValue()/ deselectByValue()	selects/deselects an option by the value of its "value" attribute
	selectByIndex()/ deselectByIndex()	selects/deselects an option by its index
	isMultiple()	returns TRUE if the drop-down element allows multiple selection at a time; FALSE if otherwise
	deselectAll()	deselects all previously selected options

deselectByValue(“value”); – Deselects an option by value from a dropdown.

deselectByVisibleText(“text”); – Deselects an option by visible text from a dropdown.

deselectByIndex(index); – Deselects an option by index from a dropdown.

deselectAll(); – Deselects All options in a dropdown.

isMultiple(); – Boolean operation which verifies whether a dropdown allows multiple selection or not.

getOptions(); – Returns a list of all options from a dropdown.

getFirstSelectedOption(); – Returns first option selected in a dropdown as a WebElement .

getAllSelectedOptions(); – Returns a list of all selected options in a dropdown.

WebElement dropElement = Driver.findElement(By.id(“gh-cat”));

dropdown.selectByVisibleText(“Watches”);

The following is helpful to understand dropdown.

Project Scenario:

Feature: Launch FireFox browser and learn dropdown

Scenario: Launch ebay browser

Given User navigates to URL “http://www.ebay.in”

When User Enter some value in “Search Product” field

Then User enters a“Apple Watches”

When User select the category on your search from the dropdown

Then User select category as “Jewelry & Watches”

When User clicks on the search button

Then User should get the value of the total listings obtained as per your search

Project Format in eclipse:

There are two classes.

package com.automation.eng.AutomationProject.Select;

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.support.ui.Select;

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class EbaySelectDropDownExpample {

public WebDriver driver;

public WebElement dropElement;

public void invokeBrowser(){

//setup the firefoxdriver using WebDriverManager

WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();

//Create driver object for Chrome

driver = new FirefoxDriver();

String url = "http://www.ebay.in";

//To maximise the browser

driver.manage().window().maximize();

//To delete all cookies

driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

//To invoke URL

driver.get(url);

}

public void searchProduct(String product, String category){

//Locating Search Product field and entering value in it

driver.findElement(By.id("gh-ac")).sendKeys(product);

//Locating dropDown

dropElement = driver.findElement(By.id("gh-cat"));

//Object instantiation for selecting values from dropDown

Select dropdown = new Select(dropElement);

//Select value from the  DropDown

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Jewelry & Watches");

//Clicking on Search button

driver.findElement(By.id("gh-btn")).click();

//Fetching count of total listings

String result = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='srp-controls__control srp-controls__count']")).getText();

//Printing the count of  total listings

System.out.println("Result is : "+ result);

}

}

Here creation of another class where main method resides to execute the Script.

package com.automation.eng.AutomationProject.Select;

public class DemoEbay {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Object instantiation for accessing 'EbayProject' class methods

EbaySelectDropDownExpample ebay = new EbaySelectDropDownExpample();

//Calling method invokeBrowser

ebay.invokeBrowser();

//Passing value for Search product field and value to be selected from dropDown

ebay.searchProduct("Apple watches", "Jewelry & Watches");

}

}

Output:

Result is : 334,495 results for Apple watches