How to select an option from a drop-down using Selenium WebDriver with Java?

Question

I need to select a category from the below html. I tried different options, and different ways showed in the blogs, but not able to select the options. Any help will be appreciated.

One way I am using as (Not a better one)

private boolean select_dropdown_xpath(String value, String seleniumObjectValue) {
 try {
 boolean isListItemFound = false;
 int i = 0;
 do {
 i++;
 String category = driver.findElement(By.xpath(seleniumObjectValue+"/div["+ i +"]")).getText();
 if(category.equals(value)) {
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(seleniumObjectValue+"/div["+ i +"]")).click();
 isListItemFound = true;
 }
 } while (isListItemFound == false);
 if(!(isListItemFound)) {
 return false;
 } 
 } catch(Exception e) {
 return false;
 }
 return true;
}

Tool: Selenium WebDriver 2.28 with Java

Thanks Purna

HTML:

<div class="drop-down">
 <div class="label_field">
 <label>Category:</label>
 <fieldset>
 <div id="Ccategory" class="jSym_select_element jSym_pie jSym_noSelectText false hover" tabindex="0" textval="Default" style="width: 350px;">
 <div class="jSym_drop_arrow false"/>
 <div class="jSym_select_inner false">Default</div>
 </div>
 <div id="selectDrop" class="jSym_select_drop jSym_noSelectText " style="height: 50px; width: 350px; margin-top: 10px;">
 <div class="jSym_select_item jSym_noSelectText" optionval="Default">Default</div>
 <div class="jSym_select_item jSym_noSelectText" optionval="Reset">Reset</div>
 </div>
 <select id="select_category" class="jSym_dropdown" name="category" style="visibility: hidden;">
 <option value="Default">Default</option>
 <option value="Reset">Reset</option>
 </select>
 </fieldset>
 </div>
</div>

Answer 1

Try this code:

Select sele = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("select_category")));
//Select the dropdown by using the displayed value.
sele.selectByVisibleText(`displayed value`);
//or you can Select the dropdown by using the index value.
sele.selectByIndex(`index value`);
 //or you can Select the dropdown by using the value attribute.
sele.selectByIndex(`value in the value attribute`);

In your case the dropdown visibility is hidden. So, first make it as visible by using JavaScript Executor class. Then use the above code.

• Ripon Al Wasim: How to make the drop-down visible by using JavascriptExecutor in Selenium?