How to select value in drop down using Webdriver

How to select values in drop down using Webdriver

This post will take you through the way you can select the value in a drop down. Webdriver does not have straight forward command "SELECT" which Selenium does.
In below example i will open home page of eBay India and search ipod in Consumer Electronic category. This page has a category drop down in which i will select
Consumer Electronics.

package com.web;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;


public class DropDownSelection {
 private static WebDriver driver=null;
 @BeforeTest
 @org.testng.annotations.Parameters({"BROWSER"})
 public void setup(String BROWSER){
  if(BROWSER.equals("FF")){
   File profileDir = new File("C:\\nir");
     FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(profileDir);
     profile.setPreference("general.useragent.override", "same user agent string as above");
     driver= new FirefoxDriver(profile);
   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);  
  }else if(BROWSER.equals("IE")){
   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);
   driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
  }else if(BROWSER.equals("HU")){
   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);
   driver =new HtmlUnitDriver();
   
  } else
  {
   System.out.println("Broser Selected " + BROWSER);
   driver = new ChromeDriver();
  }

 }
 @Test
 public void testDropDownSelection() throws InterruptedException{
  
  driver.get("http://www.ebay.in");
  WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.name("_nkw"));
  search.sendKeys("ipod");

   List dd = driver.findElement(By.name("_sacat")).findElements(By.tagName("option"));
   for (WebElement option : dd) {
    System.out.println(option.getText());
    if ("Consumer Electronics".equalsIgnoreCase(option.getText())){
     option.click();
     break;
    }
   }
   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Search']")).submit();
   Thread.sleep(5000);
   driver.getPageSource().contains("results found");
  driver.quit();
 }

}

TestNG.xml
Using TestNG suite we will run the test case.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<suite name="webDriver" parallel="tests">
 <listeners>
  <listener class-name="org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter" />
  <listener class-name="org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter" />
 </listeners>
 <test name="WebDriverDemo Witn FF" preserve-order="true">
  <parameter name="BROWSER" value="FF" />
  <classes>
   <class name="com.web.DropDownSelection" />
  </classes>
  </test>

  </b>
</suite>

If above code does not work with you configuration just try another way given below.

 List  options = driver.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
  for (WebElement option : options) {
   if ("Consumer Electronics".equalsIgnoreCase(option.getText())){
    option.click();
   }
      }