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Selenium Webdriver - Checkboxes

Selenium Webdriver can be used to handle checkboxes on a web page. In HTML terminology, every checkbox is identified by the tagname called input. Also, each checkbox on a web page will always have an attribute called type with its value as checkbox.

Let us now discuss the identification of a checkbox on a web page shown in the below image. First, we would need to right click on the webpage, and then click on the Inspect button in the Chrome broswer. Then, the corresponding HTML code for the whole page would be visible. For investigating a single element on a page, we would need to click on the left upward arrow, available to the top of the visible HTML code as highlighted below.

Selenium Checkbox 1

Once we had clicked and pointed the arrow to the checkbox (highlighted in the below image), its HTML code was visible, both reflecting the input tagname(enclosed in <>) and value of type attribute as checkbox.

<input id="hobbies" name="dob" type="checkbox" class="form-check-input mt-0">
Selenium Checkbox 2

Let us take an example of the above page, where we would click the first checkbox with the help of the click() method. Then we would verify if the checkbox is checked using the isSelected() method. This method returns a boolean value(true or false). If a checkbox is selected, isSelected() would return true, else false.

Syntax

Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
WebElement checkbox= driver.findElement(By.xpath("value of xpath"));
checkbox.click();
boolean result = checkBox.isSelected();

Example

Code Implementation on HandlingCheckbox.java class file.

package org.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;

public class HandlingCheckbox {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

      // Initiate the Webdriver
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

      // adding implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // Opening the webpage where we will identify checkbox
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

      // identify the first checkbox
      WebElement checkBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='hobbies']"));

      // click the checkbox
      checkBox.click();

      // check if a checkbox is selected
      boolean result = checkBox.isSelected();
      System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is selected: " + result);

      // Closing browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Checking if a checkbox is selected: true

Process finished with exit code 0

In the above example, we had first clicked on the first checkbox, and then verified if the checkbox was checked in the console with the message - Checking if a checkbox is selected: true.

Finally, the message Process finished with exit code 0 was received, signifying successful execution of the code.

Let us take another example of the below page, where we would count the total number of checkboxes. In this example, the total number of checkboxes should be 3.

Syntax

Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
List<WebElement> totalChks = driver.findElements
   (By.xpath("<xpath value of all checkboxes>"));
int count = totalChks.size();
Selenium Checkbox 3

Example

Code Implementation on CountingCheckbox.java class file.

package org.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 java.util.List;

public class CountingCheckbox {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
   
      // Initiate the Webdriver
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

      // adding implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // Opening the webpage where we will identify checkbox
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

      // Retrieve all checkboxes using locator and storing in List
      List<WebElement> totalChks = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@type='checkbox']"));

      // count number of checkboxes
      int count = totalChks.size();
      System.out.println("Count the checkboxes: " + count);

      //Closing browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Count the checkboxes: 3

Process finished with exit code 0

In the above example, we had counted the total number of checkboxes on a webpage, and received the messages in the console - Count the checkboxes: 3.

Finally, the message Process finished with exit code 0 was received, signifying successful execution of the code.

Let us take another example on checkboxes, where we would perform some validation on the checkboxes. First, we would check if the checkbox is enabled/disabled using the isEnabled() method. Also, we would verify if it is displayed and checked/unchecked using the isDisplayed() and isSelected() methods respectively.

These methods return a boolean value(true or false). If a checkbox is selected, enabled and displayed it would return true, else false.

Syntax

Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

// identify checkbox but not selected
WebElement checkBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("<xpath value of checkbox>"));

// verify if checkbox is selected
boolean result = checkBox.isSelected();
System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is selected: " + result);

// verify if checkbox is displayed
boolean result1 = checkBox.isDisplayed();
System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is displayed: " + result1);

// verify if checkbox is enabled
boolean result2 = checkBox.isEnabled();
System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is enabled: " + result2);

Example

Code Implementation on CheckboxValidates.java class file.

package org.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;

public class CheckboxValidates {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

      // Initiate the Webdriver
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

      // adding implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // Opening the webpage where we will identify checkbox
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

      // identify checkbox but not select
      WebElement checkBox = driver.findElement
         (By.xpath("//*[@id='practiceForm']/div[7]/div/div/div[2]/input"));

      // verify if checkbox is selected
      boolean result = checkBox.isSelected();
      System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is selected: " + result);

      // verify if checkbox is displayed
      boolean result1 = checkBox.isDisplayed();
      System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is displayed: " + result1);
      
      // verify if checkbox is enabled
      boolean result2 = checkBox.isEnabled();
      System.out.println("Checking if a checkbox is enabled: " + result2);

      // Closing browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Checking if a checkbox is selected: false
Checking if a checkbox is displayed: true
Checking if a checkbox is enabled: true

Process finished with exit code 0

In the above example, we had validated if a checkbox was displayed, enabled, and selected, and received the following messages in the console - Checking if a checkbox is selected: false, Checking if a checkbox is displayed: true and Checking if a checkbox is enabled: true.

Finally, the message Process finished with exit code 0 was received, signifying successful execution of the code.

Thus, in this tutorial, we had discussed how to handle checkboxes using the Selenium Webdriver.

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