How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java
I am new to selenium , currently am working on selenium webdriver i want to select a value from the drop down. The id=periodId and the option is many in that am trying to select Last 52 weeks.
Here is the HTML code:
<select id="periodId" name="period" style="display: none;">
<option value="l4w">Last 4 Weeks</option>
<option value="l52w">Last 52 Weeks</option>
<option value="daterange">Date Range</option>
<option value="weekrange">Week Range</option>
<option selected="" value="monthrange">Month Range</option>
<option value="yeartodate">Year To Date</option>
</select>
Please suggest me some ways to click the drop down.
I tried with the above example lines but am getting error such as Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 32 milliseconds the drop downs values are the jquery multiselect widget format.
Answer
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");