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How can I select an item from a drop down list like gender (eg male, female) using Selenium WebDriver with Java?

I have tried this

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("Male"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
    if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
        option.click();   
}

My above code didn't work.

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    Similar to: stackoverflow.com/questions/7232544/… Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 18:14
  • sorry this couldn,t help me out.. can you provide me the way or give me any idea so i can proceed Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 18:29
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    Stackoverflow users helps those who help themselves :) Commented Oct 17, 2012 at 19:14
  • I wonder if you don't convert a select WebElement to Select, then could it be possible that selenium will click the wrong option ? See this post - stackoverflow.com/questions/40031592/… Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 23:57

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Use -

new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender"))).selectByVisibleText("Germany");

Of course, you need to import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

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Note that in C# the class is SelectElement instead of Select. Also it's not part of the core Selenium.WebDriver package, to use this class you also have to install the Selenium.Support package.
Can you please tell us why we need to convert WebElement into a Select instance ? Is it only so that we can get Select specific methods which make it easy to automate select ? Also, can we automate a select, without using Select class ?
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Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below

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

Once this is done you can select the required value in 3 ways. Consider an HTML file like this

<html>
<body>
<select id = "designation">
<option value = "MD">MD</option>
<option value = "prog"> Programmer </option>
<option value = "CEO"> CEO </option>
</option>
</select>
<body>
</html>

Now to identify dropdown do

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

To select its option say 'Programmer' you can do

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

or

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

or

dropdown.selectByValue("prog");

Happy Coding :)

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Tagname you should mentioned like that "option", if text with space we can use this method it should work.

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));

for (WebElement option : options) {

if("Germany".equals(option.getText().trim()))

 option.click();   
}
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You can use 'Select' class of selenium WebDriver as posted by Maitreya. Sorry, but I'm a bit confused about, for selecting gender from drop down why to compare string with "Germany". Here is the code snippet,

Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("gender")));
gender.selectByVisibleText("Male/Female");

Import import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; after adding the above code. Now gender will be selected which ever you gave ( Male/Female).

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Google "select item selenium webdriver" brings up How do I set an option as selected using Selenium WebDriver (selenium 2.0) client in ruby as first result. This is not Java, but you should be able to translate it without too much work. https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1355/what-is-the-correct-way-to-select-an-option-using-seleniums-python-webdriver is in the top 5, again not Java but the API is very similar.

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WebElement selectgender = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
selectgender.sendKeys("Male");
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WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("gender"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) {
   if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
       option.click();   
}
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To find a particular dropdown box element:

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

To get the list of all the elements contained in the dropdown box:

for(int j=1;j<3;j++)
    System.out.println(gender.getOptions().get(j).getText());

To select it through visible text displayed when you click on it:

gender.selectByVisibleText("Male");

To select it by index (starting at 0):

gender.selectByIndex(1);
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public class checkBoxSel {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

         WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
         EventFiringWebDriver dr = null ;


         dr = new EventFiringWebDriver(driver);
         dr.get("http://www.google.co.in/");

         dr.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

         dr.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail")).click() ;

         Select sel = new Select(driver.findElement(By.tagName("select")));
         sel.selectByValue("fil");

    }

}

I am using GOOGLE LOGIN PAGE to test the seletion option. The above example was to find and select language "Filipino" from the drop down list. I am sure this will solve the problem.

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