Selenium 4 Beginner Tutorial 10 | How to handle DropDown

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00:00 Introduction
00:36 How to select an option from drop-down
08:18 How to store dropdown options in a list
14:48 How to deselect an option from drop-down

How to select an option from Dropdown
Step 1 - Import select class from selenium
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Step 2 - Create a select object by referring to the select element
WebElement selectElement = driver.findElement(By.id("option"));
Select selectObject = new Select(selectElement);

Step 3 - select object will give you multiple commands to select
selectObject.selectByIndex(1);
selectObject.selectByValue("option 2");
selectObject.selectByVisibleText("Option 3");

How to store dropdown options in a list
Step 1 - Import select class from selenium
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

Step 2 - Create a list of type WebElement for the dropdown
List＜WebElement＞ allAvailableOptions = selectObject.getOptions();
OR
List＜WebElement＞ options = driver.findElements(By.id("option"));

Step 3 - Create a LOOP to access all options
for(WebElement option : options) {
System.out.println(option.getText()); }

How to deselect an option from Dropdown
selectObject.deselectByIndex(1);
selectObject.deselectByValue("option 2");
selectObject.deselectByVisibleText("Option 3");


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