How to Select a Dropdown in Selenium WebDriver using Java

<select id="mySelect">




<option value="option1">France</option>




<option value="option2">Italy</option>




<option value="option3">Spain</option>




</select>

FranceItalySpain

1. Identify the select HTML element:

WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect"));
Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement);

or pass it directly to the Select element:

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect")));

2. To select an option you can do:

All select/deselect methods will throw NoSuchElementException if no matching option elements are found.
Select by Visible Text (select all options that display text matching the argument):

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Italy");

or

Select by Index (select the option at the given index. This is done by examining the “index” attribute of an element, and not merely by counting):

dropdown.selectByIndex(2);

or

Select by Option Value (select all options that have a value matching the argument)

dropdown.selectByValue("option2");

3. To deselect an option you can do:

Also, the deselect method will throw UnsupportedOperationException ff the SELECT does not support multiple selections

Deselect all selected entries, valid only when the SELECT supports multiple selections:

dropdown.deselectAll();

Deselect by Visible Text:

dropdown.deselectByVisibleText("Italy");

Deselect by Index

dropdown.deselectByIndex(2);

Deselect by value:

dropdown.deselectByValue("option2");

4. In order to get the selected option:

WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect"));
Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement);
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Italy");

WebElement option = dropdown.getFirstSelectedOption();
System.out.println(option.getText()); //output "Italy"

5. In order to get the list of options from a dropdown element:

WebElement mySelectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("mySelect"));
Select dropdown= new Select(mySelectElement);
List options = dropdown.getOptions();
for (WebElement option : options) {
System.out.println(option.getText()); //output "option1", "option2", "option3"
}

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