How to locate drop down by using Selenium Web Driver

In earlier article we discussed about how to locate Link, Text Box, Button, Radio Button. In this article i want to discuss with you that how we can deal with the drop down boxes. We can call drop down also called select box because Web Driver's support class is Select, which provide useful method to interact with the drop down.
There are 3 method by which Selenium Web driver can interact with the drop down.
1) selectByIndex

In this method we will use the index to select the option.

so if you want to put the value 2 then following will be the script package openBrowserPackage; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; public class OpenBrowserClass { public static void main(String[] args) { WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); /* Below line is to open the firefox browser */ driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/"); /* Below code is used to select the value from drop down and placed it */ WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.id("day")); Select day = new Select(el); day.selectByIndex(2); } }


2)selectByValue

In this method we will use the value to select the option.
Suppose you want to select the month "feb" then 
package openBrowserPackage; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; public class OpenBrowserClass { public static void main(String[] args) { WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); /* Below line is to open the firefox browser */ driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/"); /* Below code is used to select the value from drop down and placed it */ WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.id("month")); Select month = new Select(el); month.selectByValue("2"); } }



3)selectBYVisibleText

In this method we will use the visible text to select the option.
Suppose you want to select the year"1986" then
package openBrowserPackage; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; public class OpenBrowserClass { public static void main(String[] args) { WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); /* Below line is to open the firefox browser */ driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/"); /* Below code is used to select the value from drop down and placed it */ WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.id("year")); Select year = new Select(el); year.selectByValue("1986"); } }