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.findElement(By.id("selection")).sendKeys("Germany");

But that didn't work every time. Sometimes another option was selected. So I googled a little bit and found this piece of code which works every time:

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection"));
    List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for (WebElement option : options) {
        if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
            option.click();
    }

But that works really really slow. If I have a long list with many items in it, it really takes too much time. So my question is, is there a solution which works every time and is fast?

Answer 1

You could try this:

IWebElement dropDownListBox = driver.findElement(By.Id("selection"));
SelectElement clickThis = new SelectElement(dropDownListBox);
clickThis.SelectByText("Germany");

Answer 2

I have to struggle to find how to achieve especial those who are new to this tool (like me)

C# code:

IWebElement ddl = ffDriver.FindElement(By.Id("ddlGoTo")); 
OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement clickthis = new OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement(ddl);
clickthis.SelectByText("Your Text");

hope this help others!

Answer 3

Try the Select helper class and see if that makes any difference?

String valueToSelect= "Germany";
WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection"));
Select dropDown = new Select(select);           
String selected = dropDown.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
if(selected.equals(valueToSelect)) {//do stuff already selected}
List<WebElement> Options = dropDown.getOptions();
for(WebElement option:Options){
  if(option.getText().equals(valueToSelect)){
       option.click();  
  }
}

Answer 4

Example for select an option from the drop down list:

Click on drop down list by using id or csspath or xpath or name. I have used id here.

driver.findElement(By.id("dropdownlistone")).click(); // To click on drop down list
driver.findElement(By.linkText("india")).click(); // To select a data from the drop down list.

Answer 5

select = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("select[uniq id']"));
                selectElement = new SelectElement(select);
                var optionList =
                    driver.FindElements(By.CssSelector("select[uniq id']>option"));
                selectElement.SelectByText(optionList[GenerateRandomNumber(1, optionList.Count())].Text);

Answer 6

public static void mulptiTransfer(WebDriver driver, By dropdownID, String text, By to)
{   
    String valuetext = null;
    WebElement element = locateElement(driver, dropdownID, 10);
    Select select = new Select(element);
    List<WebElement> options = element.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for (WebElement value: options) 
    {
        valuetext = value.getText();
        if (valuetext.equalsIgnoreCase(text))
        {
            try
            {
                select.selectByVisibleText(valuetext);
                locateElement(driver, to, 5).click();                           
                break;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                System.out.println(valuetext + "Value not found in Dropdown to Select");
            }       
        }
    }
}