Handling Dropdown:

What is a drop down?

• WebElement which allows the users to select one or more options from a list of predefined values.

How to handle dropdown?

• Using Select class in Selenium WebDriver

When to use?

• Element in the DOM is identified with <select>

How to handle Dropdown?

• Dropdown elements are designed to select an option under a particular
  category.
• To handle dropdown , Selenium provides special class called Select class.

How to use Select class?

1. Identify the element and confirm with <select>
2. Instantiate the Select class by passing the WebElement as argument to the constructor.

Syntax:

• Select Class provides different methods to select the options from the dropdown.

    Select options =new Select (webElement);

Note: (Select class should be imported from selenium.support.ui.Select)

Method 1

• uses index as input argument to select the option and the index starts from 0

    selectByIndex(index) ;

Method 2

• uses the text (black colour) from DOM of that particular option

    selectByVisibleText("text");

Method 3

• uses value of the value attribute as input argument to the method

    selectByValue("value");