Handling The Drop down In selenium Webdriver

How To Handle The drop Down in selenium Web Driver?

In Selenium 'Select' class is used for selecting and deselecting option in a dropdown.

In This Chapter We are Going to Learn  how to handle Drop Down

we can control drop-down boxes We have to do 2 things-

Step-1  Import the package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select

Step-2  Instantiate the drop-down box as a "Select" object in WebDriver

DropDown Method For selecting options –

selectByValue();-it will select the option by value

selectByIndex();-it will select the option by index number

selectByVisibleText();-it will select the option by visible text

DropDown Method For Deselecting options –

deselectAll()  - it will deselect all the Selected option

deselectByVisibleText()- it will deselect the option by visible text

deselectByValue() - it will deselect the option by value.

deselectByIndex()-it will deselect the option by index number

Syantax-

Select drpdn = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"blog-cat-dropdown\"]")));

 drpdn1.selectByValue("/blog/social-media/");

Selenium Code for handling Drop down-

package automationtesting;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

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

public class HandlingDropDn {

       public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

              // TODO Auto-generated method stub

              System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\Sandeep\\Soft\\chromedriver.exe");

              WebDriver driver= new ChromeDriver();

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

              driver.get("https://www.webfx.com/blog/web-design/50-examples-of-drop-down-navigation-menus-in-web-designs/");

              Select drpdn = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"blog-cat-dropdown\"]")));

              drpdn.selectByVisibleText("INTERNET");

              Thread.sleep(2000);

              Select drpdn1 = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"blog-cat-dropdown\"]")));

              drpdn1.selectByValue("/blog/social-media/");

              driver.quit();

               

        }

       }