How to get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver using C#?

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I'm new to both C# and Selenium WebDriver.

I know how to select/click on an option in a drop-down list, but I've a problem before that. Since the drop-down list is dynamically generated, I have to get all options/values from the list before running each case.

Is there anyone kindly tell me how to get all values/options from a drop-down list. I'm using IE and I didn't find any class which supports method to get values/options in Selenium.IE namespace for C#.

My example: A list contains several time zones:

<TD>
  <select name = "time_zone">
    <option value "-09:00"><script>timezone.Alaska</script></option>
    <option value "+00:00"><script>timezone.England</script></option>
    <option value "+02:00"><script>timezone.Greece</script></option>
    <option value "+05:30"><script>timezone.India</script></option>
  </select>
<TD>

This is a drop-down list in an IE page and how to get the dynamically generated time zone list?

My code:

IWebElement elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));
List<IWebElement> options = elem.FindElements(By.TagName("option"));

C# just pops an Error: Cannot implicitly covert type 'OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?).

thanks.

Nathan Dace · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-08 04:10:26Z

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You can try using the WebDriver.Support SelectElement found in OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.Selected namespace to access the option list of a select list:

IWebElement elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));

SelectElement selectList = new SelectElement(elem);
IList<IWebElement> options = selectList.Options;

You can then access each option as an IWebElement, such as:

IWebElement firstOption = options[0];
Assert.AreEqual(firstOption.GetAttribute("value"), "-09:00");

edited Mar 8, 2012 at 4:10

answered Mar 8, 2012 at 4:05

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Anton · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 14:36:38Z

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

select.getOptions();//will get all options as List<WebElement>

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 14:36

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Jonathan McIntire · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-06 08:40:28Z

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Make sure you reference the WebDriver.Support.dll assembly to gain access to the OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement dropdown helper class. See this thread for additional details.

Edit: In this screenshot, you can see that I can get the options just fine. Is IE opening up when you create a new InternetExplorerDriver?

edited Mar 6, 2012 at 8:40

answered Mar 5, 2012 at 8:08

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David Wu Over a year ago

I've already added WebDriver.dll and WebDriver.Support.dll into the reference.

David Wu Over a year ago

anyway, thank you all the same. I'm still looking for solutions.

Jonathan McIntire Over a year ago

Your code should work if you use implicit typing: var options = elem.FindElements(By.TagName("option"));

David Wu Over a year ago

jmac, thank you. I tried, but it still returns the type of the node rather than the value/text of the option. I also tried: var tz = elem.FindElment(xx).Text.ToString(); It returns " ", just a space. Do you know why? thx.

chivas_hvn · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-22 11:02:10Z

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Here is code in Java to get all options in dropdown list.

WebElement sel = myD.findElement(By.name("dropdown_name"));
List<WebElement> lists = sel.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
    for(WebElement element: lists)  
    {
        String var2 = tdElement.getText();
        System.out.println(var2);
    }

Hope it may helpful to someone.

answered Nov 22, 2012 at 11:02

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Haroldo Gondim · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 17:56:10Z

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You can use selenium.Support to use the SelectElement class, this class have a property "Options" that is what you are looking for, I created an extension method to convert your web element to a select element

public static SelectElement AsDropDown(this IWebElement webElement)
{
    return new SelectElement(webElement);
}

then you could use it like this

var elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));
var options = elem.AsDropDown().Options

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shamp00 · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-08 09:13:15Z

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Use IList<IWebElement> instead of List<IWebElement>.

For instance:

IList<IWebElement> options = elem.FindElements(By.TagName("option"));
foreach (IWebElement option in options)
{
    Console.WriteLine(option.Text);
}

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Madhu · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-02 07:28:57Z

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To get all the dropdown values you can use List.

List<string> lstDropDownValues = new List<string>();
int iValuescount = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("\html\....\select\option"))

for(int ivalue = 1;ivalue<=iValuescount;ivalue++)
 {
  string strValue = driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("\html\....\select\option["+ ivalue +"]"));
  lstDropDownValues.Add(strValue); 
 }

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vivek k · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-19 13:03:02Z

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WebElement drop_down =driver.findElement(By.id("Category"));
Select se = new Select(drop_down);
for(int i=0 ;i<se.getOptions().size(); i++)
System.out.println(se.getOptions().get(i).getAttribute("value"));

answered Feb 19, 2016 at 13:03

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Suman Verma · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-16 23:37:05Z

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 WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("inst_state"));
        Select s = new Select(element);
        List <WebElement> elementcount = s.getOptions();

        System.out.println(elementcount.size());
        for(int i=0 ;i<elementcount.size();i++)
        {
            String value = elementcount.get(i).getText();
            System.out.println(value);

        }

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Ripon Al Wasim · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-26 11:05:40Z

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To get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver C#:

SelectElement TimeZoneSelect = new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Name("time_zone")));
IList<IWebElement> ElementCount = TimeZoneSelect.Options;
int ItemSize = ElementCount.Count;

for (int i = 0; i < ItemSize; i++)
{
    String ItemValue = ElementCount.ElementAt(i).Text;
    Console.WriteLine(ItemValue);
}

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nPcomp · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-25 14:08:38Z

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It seems to be a cast exception. Can you try converting your result to a list i.e. elem.findElements(xx).toList ?

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David Wu Over a year ago

Yeah, I tried in this way. But when I printed the elements of the List, all element of List[i] is "OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebElement", which is the type but not the value.

David Wu Over a year ago

Thank you all the same. I found a method in Selenium namespace called "GetSelectOptions", but I didn't how to use it with class IWebElement or InternetExplorerWebDriver.

Imrankhan · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-15 07:58:38Z

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You need to pass the desired select webelement here and you can use getOptions() that helps you to get all the options of the drop-down. Now you can get all the elements one-by-one using loop and you can print it on the console.

Select s = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("<xpath>")));
// getting the list of options in the dropdown with getOptions()
List <WebElement> op = s.getOptions();
int size = op.size();
for(int i =0; i<size ; i++)
{
   String options = op.get(i).getText();
   System.out.println(options);
}

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answered Dec 9, 2021 at 5:31

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XouDo Over a year ago

Code-only answer are not suitable. Please consider adding some explanation on how and why your code should solve the problem.

Imrankhan Over a year ago

@XouDo done now. Thanks for the suggestion :)

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