How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java

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I am new to selenium, currently am working on selenium webdriver i want to select a value from the drop down. The id=periodId and the option is many in that am trying to select Last 52 weeks.

Here is the HTML code:

<select id="periodId" name="period" style="display: none;">
    <option value="l4w">Last 4 Weeks</option>
    <option value="l52w">Last 52 Weeks</option>
    <option value="daterange">Date Range</option>
    <option value="weekrange">Week Range</option>
    <option selected="" value="monthrange">Month Range</option>
    <option value="yeartodate">Year To Date</option>
</select>

Please suggest me some ways to click the drop down.

I tried with the above example lines but am getting error such as Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 32 milliseconds the drop downs values are the jquery multiselect widget format.

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9604336/selenium-webdriver-select-element — dckuehn, Nov 22 '13 at 06:52
i tried the linked method it is not working with my options, can i have some other model — testing, Nov 22 '13 at 07:16
I think that drop down is not visible for some reason and changing it is not very good approach, but you can always change the element's attribute value using JavaScript — Furious Duck, Nov 22 '13 at 18:42

score 142 · Accepted Answer · edited May 29 '23 at 21:13

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Just wrap your WebElement into Select Object as shown below

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("identifier")));

Once this is done you can select the required value in 3 ways. Consider an HTML file like this

<html>
<body>
<select id = "designation">
<option value = "MD">MD</option>
<option value = "prog"> Programmer </option>
<option value = "CEO"> CEO </option>
</option>
</select>
<body>
</html>

Now to identify dropdown do

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("designation")));

To select its option say 'Programmer' you can do

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

or

dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

or

dropdown.selectByValue("prog");

edited May 29 '23 at 21:13

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answered Nov 22 '13 at 08:44

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This is a fine answer for regular Select usage, but I think the OPs real problem is the fact the the Select element is not visible - – Steve Weaver Crawford Nov 22 '13 at 18:57
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By the way the import is : import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; – sinisterrook Apr 16 '15 at 18:48
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For those using C# note you have to installed "Selenium Support" available in NuGet in order to use this solution. Also in C# it's called `SelectElement` instead of `Select`. – Luis Perez Oct 19 '15 at 18:35
If you know the value to be selected, then even driver.findElement(By.xpath(Your_Xpath_to_Element)).sendKeys("Selected Value ") - Tested with FireFox and working good – Rajesh Balan Aug 31 '16 at 18:43
@RajeshBalan. Yes. However identifying elements by XPath is not advisable. Automation code will fail if DOM structure changes. – Abhishek Singh Jul 25 '17 at 07:53

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 19:18

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If you want to write all in one line try

new Select (driver.findElement(By.id("designation"))).selectByVisibleText("Programmer ");

answered Apr 22 '14 at 19:18

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 04 '18 at 09:19

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As discussed above, we need to implement Select Class in Selenium and further we can use various available methods like :- enter image description here

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answered Feb 19 '15 at 16:09

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score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 19 '15 at 09:47

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Actually select does select but not placing the selected values to the respective field . Where wondered the below snippet works perfectly

driver.findElement(By.name("period")).sendKeys("Last 52 Weeks");

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answered Jun 19 '15 at 09:12

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It did not work for me. I used: `driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[option[@value='50']]")).sendKeys("50");` – Lorenzo Lerate Nov 11 '16 at 13:02

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 08 '21 at 15:47

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You can use following methods to handle drop down in selenium.

 1. driver.selectByVisibleText("Text");
 2. driver.selectByIndex(1);
 3. driver.selectByValue("prog");

For more details you can refer http://www.codealumni.com/handle-drop-selenium-webdriver/ this post.

It will definitely help you a lot in resolving your queries.

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answered Jul 05 '17 at 11:03

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 03 '19 at 12:10

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code to select dropdown using xpath

Select select = new 
Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='periodId']));

code to select particaular option using selectByVisibleText

select.selectByVisibleText(Last 52 Weeks);

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answered Mar 31 '15 at 06:40

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score -1 · Answer 7 · edited May 14 '20 at 16:45

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WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
WebElement identifier = driver.findElement(By.id("periodId"));
Select select = new Select(identifier);
select.selectByVisibleText("Last 52 Weeks");

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answered Oct 21 '15 at 06:27

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Please explain your answer. – marian0 Oct 21 '15 at 07:20
While this code may provide a solution to problem, it is highly recommended that you provide additional context regarding why and/or how this code answers the question. Code only answers typically become useless in the long-run because future viewers experiencing similar problems cannot understand the reasoning behind the solution. – palaѕн May 15 '20 at 04:50

score -1 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I have not tried in Selenium, but for Galen test this is working,

var list = driver.findElementByID("periodID"); // this will return web element

list.click(); // this will open the dropdown list.

list.typeText("14w"); // this will select option "14w".

You can try this in selenium, the galen and selenium working are similar.

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answered Dec 09 '15 at 08:52

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Vishnu More · Answer 9 · 2016-01-13T09:26:00.287

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First Import the package as :

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

then write in single line as:

new Select (driver.findElement(By.id("sampleid"))).selectByValue("SampleValue");

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 14:45

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score -3 · Answer 10 · edited May 14 '20 at 16:45

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Try this-

driver.findElement(By.name("period")).sendKeys("Last 52 Weeks");

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answered Nov 20 '14 at 05:24

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