Automating checkboxes

Selenium WebDriver supports Checkbox control using the WebElement class. We can select or deselect a checkbox using the click() method of the WebElement class and check whether a checkbox is selected or deselected using the isSelected() method.

In this recipe, we will see how to work with the Checkbox control.

How to do it...

Here is a test which gets a Checkbox control. We will perform select and deselect operations.

@Test
public void testCheckBox()
{
  //Get the Checkbox as WebElement using it's value attribute
  WebElement airbags = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Airbags']"));
  
  //Check if its already selected? otherwise select the Checkbox
  //by calling click() method
  if (!airbags.isSelected())
    airbags.click();
  
  //Verify Checkbox is Selected
  assertTrue(airbags.isSelected());

  //Check Checkbox if selected? If yes, deselect it
  //by calling click() method
  if (airbags.isSelected())
    airbags.click();
  
  //Verify Checkbox is Deselected...