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Technology

Selenium

Difficulty

Intermediate

Interview Question

How to handle dropdowns in Selenium WebDriver?

Use the Select class from Selenium support library to interact with HTML select dropdown elements.

Answer

Use the Select class from org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select to handle standard HTML <select> dropdowns.

Setup:

Java
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

WebElement dropdown = driver.findElement(By.id("countrySelect"));
Select select = new Select(dropdown);

3 ways to select an option:

Java
select.selectByVisibleText("India");
select.selectByValue("IN");
select.selectByIndex(2);

Get selected value:

Java
String selected = select.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();
System.out.println("Selected: " + selected);

Get all options:

Java
List<WebElement> options = select.getOptions();
for (WebElement option : options) {
    System.out.println(option.getText());
}

Multi-select dropdowns:

Java
if (select.isMultiple()) {
    select.selectByVisibleText("India");
    select.selectByVisibleText("USA");
    select.deselectAll();
}

Note: The Select class only works with native <select> HTML elements. For custom dropdowns (React/Material UI), use click() on the dropdown trigger then findElement() on the options.

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