How to Select Value from

In this tutorial, we will learn how to handle Drop Down and Multiple Select Operations.

Select Option from Drop-Down Box

Before we can control drop-down boxes, we must do following two things:

1. Import the package org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select
2. Instantiate the drop-down box as a “Select” object in WebDriver

As an example, go to Mercury Tours’ Registration page (http://demo.guru99.com/test/newtours/register.php) and notice the “Country” drop-down box there.  

Step 1

Import the “Select” package.

Step 2

Declare the drop-down element as an instance of the Select class. In the example below, we named this instance as “drpCountry”.

Step 3

We can now start controlling “drpCountry” by using any of the available Select methods. The sample code below will select the option “ANTARCTICA.”

Selecting Items in a Multiple SELECT elements

We can also use the selectByVisibleText() method in selecting multiple options in a multi SELECT element. As an example, we will take http://jsbin.com/osebed/2 as the base URL. It contains a drop-down box that allows multiple selections at a time.

The code below will select the first two options using the selectByVisibleText() method.

Select Methods

The following are the most common methods used on drop down list.

Here is the complete code

package newpackage;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class accessDropDown {
 public static void main(String[] args) { 
		System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\geckodriver.exe");
	    String baseURL = "http://demo.guru99.com/test/newtours/register.php";
	    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
		driver.get(baseURL);

		Select drpCountry = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("country")));
		drpCountry.selectByVisibleText("ANTARCTICA");

		//Selecting Items in a Multiple SELECT elements
		driver.get("http://jsbin.com/osebed/2");
		Select fruits = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("fruits")));
		fruits.selectByVisibleText("Banana");
		fruits.selectByIndex(1);
 }
}

Summary

To control drop-down boxes, you must first import the org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select package and then create a Select instance.

Source: https://www.guru99.com/