How to handle Select box/Drop down

'Select' class of Webdriver provides useful methods for interacting with select options. We can perform operations on a select dropdown using the as below:

HTML Code:

<div>

<select id="SelectID">

<option value="colorred">Red</option>

<option value="colorgreen">Green</option>

<option value="colorblue">Blue</option>

</select>

</div>

Methods:

Selecting By Value:

Setting the value in the dropdown using selectByValue() method:
Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("SelectID")));

select.selectByValue(“colorgreen”);

Selecting By Visible Text:

Setting the value in the dropdown using selectByVisibleText() method
Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("SelectID")));

select.selectByVisibleText(“Green”);

Selecting By Index

Setting the value in the dropdown using selectByIndex() method
Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("SelectID")));

select.selectByIndex(“2”);

MultiSelect:

In the above example step, we can select multiple options, if it is allowed, just we need to fire the same command repeatedly for multiple web elements:

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

dropdown.selectByVisibleText(“Red”);

dropdown.selectByVisibleText(“Green”);

dropdown.selectByVisibleText(“Blue”);

Iterating over web elements

We can also take it in the form of list of web elements and iterate over it:

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

List <WebElement> Colors = dropdown.getOptions();

int csize = Colors.size();

 for(int i =0; i<csize ; i++){

 String svalue = Colors.get(i).getText();

 System.out.println(sValue);

  }