Select Method Explained

Question

i am new to Java and Selenium and try to learn The Problem is, that i do not know how to extract names from a Dropdown Menu using the Select class

I have created a Variable Array String with the Expected Results
I have created a new object for Select Class and pass the xpath
I have created a List to store all the options from the Dropdown
Then i have a For Loop to iterate in all items in the loop and take the names
But i have no method to extract the name.
The question is how we can do that? Using the Select.

Thanks in advance for your help

Practice Website is this one: http://qaclickacademy.com/practice.php

HTML CODE:

<select id="dropdown-class-example" name="dropdown-class-example" wtx-context="4CBF2E98-EC2A-4384-8B92-4FB100C9F504" style="" xpath="1">
    <option value="">Select</option>
    <option value="option1" style="">Option1</option>
    <option value="option2">Option2</option>
    <option value="option3">Option3</option>
</select>

MY CODE:

String expectedDropDownItems [] = {"Select","option1","option2","option3"};
Select dropDownSelect = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("dropdown-class-example")));
List<WebElement> dropDownActualValues = dropDownSelect.getOptions();
int counter = dropDownActualValues.size();
for (int i=0; i < counter; i++){

}

Expected and Actual something like this :

Selection 1 is : Select  
Selection 2 is : option1  
Selection 3 is : option2  
Selection 4 is : option3

Possible duplicate of How to get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver using C#? — KarelPeeters
– KarelPeeters, Commented Jan 20, 2019 at 17:07

Dev · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-20 17:43:03Z

2

you have all options in list of dropdown element from here you are very close to what you want. There is method on every web element from WebElement Interface as getText()

In your for loop it will look like as :

for (int i=0; i<counter; i++){
            System.out.println("Selection " + i + " is : "  + dropDownActualValues.get(i).getText());
   }

output
Selection 0 is : Select
Selection 1 is : Option1
Selection 2 is : Option2
Selection 3 is : Option3

answered Jan 20, 2019 at 17:43

Dev

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Proko Over a year ago

Thank a lot, yes i was trying to find getText, but i had to return the (i). Got it.

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