Question

How do we find the selected option of a Dropdown in Selenium Webdriver??

I tried –

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator1));
Select select = new Select(element);
List<WebElement> SO = select.getAllSelectedOptions();
String S = SO.toString();
System.out.println(S);

which returns WebElements like –

[[[[[FirefoxDriver: firefox on XP (c388e8a8-09d5-41b9-b086-0278c639d8b1)] -> xpath: .//*[@id='city']]] -> tag name: option]]

I want to find the option that is selected?

Answer 1

You can use the getFirstSelectedOption() method on your Select object to resolve the selected element and you can get it’s text by the getText()method. See example below:

For single selection:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator1));
Select select = new Select(element);
WebElement selectedOption = select.getFirstSelectedOption();
System.out.println(selectedOption.getText());

For multiple selection:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator1));
Select select = new Select(element);
List<WebElement> selectedOptions = select.getAllSelectedOptions();
for(WebElement selectedOption : selectedOptions) {
    System.out.println(selectedOption.getText());
}