Not able to select dropdown values using selenium Java

Question

I am new to automation and currently exploring selenium Java for my application Trying to automate a web application with selenium Java.

I have looked online and can only find answers if the dropdown was 'Select'. Please suggest how i can select a value from the dropdown .

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user_9509346 · Answer

You can't click on options from select drop-downs. You need to handle them differently.

From your code sample I would say that in order to select an option you have to do this:

CODE SAMPLE

Select yourSelectSection = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("YOUR_ID")));
yourSelectSection.selectByIndex(0); // by using index
yourSelectSection.selectByVisibleText("Yes"); // or by using text

Note: you have to import Select library. If you need to read more about this library you can do it here.

user_15596658 · Answer

Select yourSelectSection = new Select(driver.findElement(By.Xpath("dropdown-list")));
yourSelectSection.selectByIndex(0); // by using index
yourSelectSection.selectByVisibleText("true");

this will work

user_13412076 · Answer

Please try the below code:

driver.findElement(By.id(“dropdownField”)).sendKeys(“mention text of required value from dropdown”); //send required option in dropdown field
driver.findElement(By.id(“option1”)).click();

Or try with the below code:

List options = driver.findElements(By.xpath(“”));
for(WebElement option : options) {
if (option.getText().contains(“mention text of required value from dropdown”)) {
option.click();
break;
}

Please refer to the link for more details- how to select a particular value in a dropdown without using the methods of Select class in Selenium.

Not able to select dropdown values using selenium Java

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