Handling the drop downs and
multi-select dropdown
Handling the drop down
Test Case Flow:
- Launch Chrome via WebDriver.
- Navigate to https://example.com/preferences.
- Locate the <select> element by XPath
- Check if the dropdown is displayed and enabled.
- Select the dropdown value using Select by visible text
- Select the dropdown value using Select by value attribute
- Select the dropdown value using Select by index
- Close the browser.
Program:
filename.js
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.support.ui.Select;
public class DropdownExample {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
// 1. Point to your ChromeDriver executable
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
// 2. Launch Chrome
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
try {
// 3. Navigate to the page containing your <select> dropdown
driver.get("https://example.com/registration");
// 4. Locate the <select> element by XPath
WebElement countrySelectElem = driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//select[@id='countryDropdown']"));
// 5. Wrap it in a Selenium Select helper
Select countrySelect = new Select(countrySelectElem);
// 6. Basic checks
System.out.println("Dropdown displayed? " + countrySelectElem.isDisplayed());
System.out.println("Dropdown enabled? " + countrySelectElem.isEnabled());
// 7. Select by visible text
countrySelect.selectByVisibleText("United Kingdom");
Thread.sleep(1500);
System.out.println("Selected (by text): " +
countrySelect.getFirstSelectedOption().getText());
// 8. Select by value attribute
countrySelect.selectByValue("US");
Thread.sleep(1500);
System.out.println("Selected (by value): " +
countrySelect.getFirstSelectedOption().getAttribute("value"));
// 9. Select by index
countrySelect.selectByIndex(3);
Thread.sleep(1500);
System.out.println("Selected (by index): " +
countrySelect.getFirstSelectedOption().getText());
} finally {
// 10. Close the browser
driver.quit();
}
}
}Handling the multi-drop down
Test Case Flow:
- Launch Chrome via WebDriver.
- Navigate to https://example.com/preferences.
- Locate the <select> element by XPath
- Verify that it supports multiple selections
- Retrieve and print all selected options
- Deselect a single option by value/text/index
- Deselect all
- Close the browser.
Program:
filename.js
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.support.ui.Select;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.List;
public class MultiSelectDropdownExample {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
// 1. Point to your ChromeDriver executable
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
// 2. Launch Chrome
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
try {
// 3. Navigate to the page containing your multi-select dropdown
driver.get("https://example.com/multiselect");
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(5));
// 4. Locate the <select> element using an XPath locator
WebElement multiSelectElem = driver.findElement(
By.xpath("//select[@id='fruitsSelect']"));
// 5. Wrap it in the Selenium Select helper
Select multiSelect = new Select(multiSelectElem);
// 6. Verify that it supports multiple selections
System.out.println("Is multi-select? " + multiSelect.isMultiple());
if (!multiSelect.isMultiple()) {
System.out.println("Dropdown is not multi-select, exiting.");
return;
}
// 7. Select multiple options
multiSelect.selectByVisibleText("Apple");
Thread.sleep(1000);
multiSelect.selectByValue("orange"); // <option value="orange">Orange</option>
Thread.sleep(1000);
multiSelect.selectByIndex(3); // selects the fourth item
Thread.sleep(1000);
// 8. Retrieve and print all selected options
List<WebElement> selectedOptions = multiSelect.getAllSelectedOptions();
System.out.println("Currently selected items:");
for (WebElement option : selectedOptions) {
System.out.println(" • " + option.getText());
}
// 9. Deselect a single option by value/text/index
multiSelect.deselectByVisibleText("Orange");
Thread.sleep(1000);
System.out.println("After deselecting Orange:");
for (WebElement option : multiSelect.getAllSelectedOptions()) {
System.out.println(" • " + option.getText());
}
// 10. Deselect all
multiSelect.deselectAll();
Thread.sleep(500);
System.out.println("After deselectAll, selected count: "
+ multiSelect.getAllSelectedOptions().size());
} finally {
// 11. Close the browser (end the session)
driver.quit();
}
}
}
