Question

I can’t select HTML Dropdown list with my Webdriver method. What was wrong in my code.? Could you give me some hints.

 <select>
<option value="32">32</option>

<option value="34">34</option>

<option value="36">36</option>


</select>

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public static List<WebElement> chooseSize(Integer size){
WebElement select = findElement(By.xpath(DropDown_Article_Size_XPATH_ID));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for(WebElement option : options){
    if(option.getText().equals(size)){
        option.isSelected(); // or .click()?
       }
}
return options;
}

Answer 1

For such cases, I’m using xpath expressions. You’ll save a lot of code!

For what you are asking for, this should do (I assume that your xpath is properly targeting the corresponding select):

// Click select first:
// (See http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=2112)
findElement(By.xpath(DropDown_Article_Size_XPATH_ID)).click();

// Then click option:
String xpathOption = String.format("%s/option[text()='%d']",
    DropDown_Article_Size_ID, size);
log.debug("Selecting option by text '{}' using xpath '{}'", size, xpathOption);
findElement(By.xpath(xpathOption)).click();

By the way, I don’t get why your chooseSize returns the list of all options. You should probably rename the method to something meaningful (getOptionsBySize, for example, if this is what you want).