Automating dropdowns and lists

Selenium WebDriver supports testing Dropdown and List controls using a special Select class instead of the WebElement 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 Select class.

How to do it...

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

@Test
public void testDropdown()
{
  //Get the Dropdown as a Select using its 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...