How to select/get drop down option in Selenium 2?

We can select the dropdown option in Selenium webdriver. The dropdowns can be worked upon with the help of the Select class. The select tag is used to represent a dropdown and option tag is used to represent items in the dropdown in html.

Let us investigate the html structure of a dropdown −

We have to add the statement − import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select to use the Select class methods. The Select class methods are listed below −

• selectByIndex(n) − An option is chosen based on the index of the option on the dropdown. The index n is passed as a parameter to the method. The index begins from 0.

  Syntax −

  Select s = Select (driver.findElement(By.name("select-dropdown")));
  s.selectByIndex(0);

• selectByValue(n) − An option is chosen based on the value of the option on the dropdown. The value n is passed as a parameter to the method.

  Syntax −

  Select s = Select (driver.findElement(By.name ("select-dropdown")));
  s.selectByValue("value");

• selectByVisibleText(n) − An option is chosen based on the text visible on the dropdown. The visible text n is passed as a parameter to the method.

  Syntax −

  Select s = Select (driver.findElement(By.name ("select-dropdown")));
  s.selectByValue("text");

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 DropDownSelect{
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",       "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
      String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/selenium_automation_practice.htm";
      driver.get(url);
      // identify element
      WebElement m=driver
      .findElement(By.xpath("//*[@name='continents']"));
      //Select class for dropdown
      Select s = new Select(m);
      // select with text visible
      s.selectByVisibleText("Australia");
      // select with index
      s.selectByIndex(2);
      driver.close();
   }
}

Output