How to Select Value from DropDown using Selenium Webdriver

In this tutorial, we will learn how to handle DropDown in Selenium and Multiple Select Operations.

Select Option from Drop-Down Box

Following is a step by step process on how to select value from dropdown in Selenium:

Before handling dropdown in Selenium and controlling 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 an object, Select in Selenium WebDriver

As an example, go to Mercury Tours' Registration page (http://demo.gtupapers.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 to select dropdown in Selenium. 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 Selenium dropdown list.

Method	Description
selectByVisibleText() and deselectByVisibleText() Example:	Selects/deselects the option that displays the text matching the parameter. Parameter: The exactly displayed text of a particular option
selectByValue() and deselectByValue() Example:	Selects/deselects the option whose "value" attribute matches the specified parameter. Parameter: value of the "value" attribute Remember that not all drop-down options have the same text and "value", like in the example below.
selectByIndex() and deselectByIndex() Example:	Selects/deselects the option at the given index. Parameter: the index of the option to be selected.
isMultiple() Example:	Returns TRUE if the drop-down element allows multiple selections at a time; FALSE if otherwise. No parameters needed
deselectAll() Example:	Clears all selected entries. This is only valid when the drop-down element supports multiple selections. No parameters needed

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.gtupapers.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);
 }
}

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