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How to get selected option using Selenium WebDriver with Java?
We can get a selected option in a dropdown in Selenium webdriver. The method getFirstSelectedOption() returns the selected option in the dropdown. Once the option is fetched we can apply getText() method to fetch the text.
Let us consider the below dropdown Continents get its selected item−
Example
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select
public class SelecedItem{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
String u =" https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/selenium_automation_practice.htm"driver.get(u);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// identify element
WebElement t=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@name='continents']"));
//Select class for dropdown
Select select = new Select(t);
// select an item with text visible
select.selectByVisibleText("Australia");
// get selected option with getFirstSelectedOption() with its text
WebElement o = select.getFirstSelectedOption();
String selectedoption = o.getText();
System.out.println("Selected element: " + selectedoption);
driver.close();
}
}Output
Updated on: 18-Sep-2020
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