How to count the number of options in a select drop down box in Selenium WebDriver using Java?

Question

I have Select Dropdown list with this:

xpath //*[@id="ddlTablePay"]

I need to count the number of options in this drop-down. Thank You

As the element as ID, you should use ID instead of xpath. Because ID is more preferable than xpath. — Ripon Al Wasim, Sep 02 '16 at 11:43

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 26 '13 at 08:51

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Use .getOptions() method and store them in a list .Then find its size.

Select se = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("select drop down locator")));

List<WebElement> l = se.getOptions();
l.size();

-Ajay

edited Nov 26 '13 at 08:51

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 07:44

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 29 '15 at 11:14

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String[] options = driver.findElement(By.id("dropdown")).getText().split("\n");
options.length;

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maybe elaborate on the solution? – Scorpio Sep 29 '15 at 11:31

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 21 '14 at 08:29

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Use .getXpathCount() method

int numOptions = selenium.getXpathCount("//*[@id='ddlTablePay']/option").intValue();

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '15 at 10:33

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optionItems = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@id='ddlTablePay']"))
print "Total Elements " + str(len(optionItems.options))

answered Sep 16 '15 at 10:33

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 02 '16 at 12:10

//To count the number of options

Select dropDown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("ddlTablePay")));
List<WebElement> elementCount = dropDown.getOptions();
System.out.println("Number of items: " + elementCount.size());

//To get and print all the Options

Select dropDown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("ddlTablePay")));
        List <WebElement> elementCount = dropDown.getOptions();
        int itemSize = elementCount.size();
        for(int i = 0; i < itemSize ; i++){
            String optionsValue = elementCount.get(i).getText();
            System.out.println(optionsValue);
        }

I have used ID instead of xpath though xpath also definitely works. ID is more preferable than xpath if any control/element has ID. — Ripon Al Wasim, Sep 02 '16 at 12:11

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 08 '22 at 05:38

Pass the xpath of the dropdown whose count you want:

static int getDropdownListCount(String xpath) {
        
    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));
    Select select = new Select(element);
    List<WebElement> elements = select.getOptions();
    return elements.size();
}

It'll return count of total number of options under that dropdown.

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