Selenium WebDriver and DropDown Boxes

Question

If I want to select an option of a dropdown box, there are several ways to do that. I always used:

driver.findElement(By.id("selection")).sendKeys("Germany"); 

But that didn't work every time. Sometimes another option was selected. So I googled a little bit and found this piece of code which works every time:

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection"));     List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));     for (WebElement option : options) {         if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))             option.click();     } 

But that works really really slow. If I have a long list with many items in it, it really takes too much time. So my question is, is there a solution which works every time and is fast?

Answer 1

You could try this:

IWebElement dropDownListBox = driver.findElement(By.Id("selection")); SelectElement clickThis = new SelectElement(dropDownListBox); clickThis.SelectByText("Germany"); 

Answer 2

Try the following:

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;  Select droplist = new Select(driver.findElement(By.Id("selection")));    droplist.selectByVisibleText("Germany");