Automating dropdowns and lists

Selenium WebDriver supports testing dropdown and list elements using a special Select class.

The Select class provides various methods and properties to interact with dropdowns and lists created with the HTML <select> element.

In this recipe, we will automate dropdown and list control using the Select class.

How to do it...

Let's create a test for a dropdown control. This test will perform some basic checks and will then call various methods to select options in the dropdown:

@Test
public void testDropdown() {

  // Get the Dropdown as a Select using it's name attribute
  Select make = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("make")));

  // Verify Dropdown does not support multiple selection
  assertFalse(make.isMultiple());
  // Verify Dropdown has four options for selection
  assertEquals(4, make.getOptions().size());

  // With Select class we can select an option in Dropdown using Visible text
  make.selectByVisibleText("Honda");
  assertEquals("Honda"...