How to handle dropdowns in selenium

Question

I am new to selenium and trying to learn ways of handling elements. I tried working on facebooks signup page. The date of birth section find by .sendKey("Value') but that is not the correct way. Can someone help me with the appropriate way of handling the dropdown? Thank you!

Comments

can you please share the code as what are you trying to do?

Answer 1

There are three ways of handling the drop down:-

Select countriesDropDown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("day")));
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("6");

dropdown.selectByIndex(5);//generally index starts with 0

dropdown.selectByValue("6");

Answer 2

Hey @Rishab, you can take a look at the following code.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class AmazonShoping {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException
    {

        //You mention the path to your chromedriver or geckodriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\priyj_kumar\\Downloads\\chromedriver.exe");

        //Create an instance of your chromedriver named driver
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        //Open facebook
        driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

        //Create an instance of select and specify the webelement
        org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select dropdown = new org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select(driver.findElement(By.id("day")));

        // 1. You can select by value
        dropdown.selectByValue("6");

        // 2. You can select by index, you need to verify the index as it starts with 0 or 1
        dropdown.selectByIndex(6);

        // 3. You can select by Visible Text
        dropdown.selectByVisibleText("6");

    }

}

Hope this helps you.