How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java
java, selenium-webdriver
Solution
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");
Problem
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.