Selenium WebDriver and DropDown Boxes

drop-down-menu, java, selenium, selenium-webdriver, webdriver

Solution

You could try this:

IWebElement dropDownListBox = driver.findElement(By.Id("selection"));
SelectElement clickThis = new SelectElement(dropDownListBox);
clickThis.SelectByText("Germany");

Problem

If I want to select an option of a dropdown box, there are several ways to do that. I always used: ``` driver.findElement(By.id("selection")).sendKeys("Germany"); ``` But that didn't work every time. Sometimes another option was selected. So I googled a little bit and found this piece of code which works every time: ``` WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection")); List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option")); for (WebElement option : options) { if("Germany".equals(option.getText())) option.click(); } ``` But that works really really slow. If I have a long list with many items in it, it really takes too much time. So my question is, is there a solution which works every time and is fast?

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