isselected() method returning false always why?

Question

First, I want to check whether checkbox is selected or not and then have to perform select action. But here isselected method always giving false output, because the script is selecting the checkbox if it is not selected and deselecting if it is selected.

<div class="wrapper-tagline primary checkbox check-success">
<input id="checkbox" type="checkbox" checked="" value="1">
<label class="main-title section-option" for="checkbox">
<span>Show Section</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="section-option-wrapper">

Any suggested solution?

Answer 1

I too faced the same problem. In my case I observed that the class name was changing on selecting/de-selecting the check box.For example the checkbox element when de-selected appears somewhat like this:

<input class="checkbox" id="current_year" name="current_year" type="checkbox" value="true">

and when it is checked/selected it appears lke this:

<input class="checkbox checked" id="current_year" name="current_year" type="checkbox" value="true">

I therefore used the class attribute in my xpath to determine if the checkbox is selected or not. For example to check if the checkbox is selected I used:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='current_year' and @class='checkbox checked']")).isDisplayed();

and to check if the checkbox is not selected I used:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='current_year' and @class='checkbox']")).isDisplayed();

You can check if any attribute in the checkbox element is changing on selecting it and can use the same to check if the checkbox is selected or not.

Answer 2

 boolean v=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='checkbox']")).isSelected( );

Try the above code.

Answer 3

From the question I gues your syntax might by the problem. Instead of isselected() you must use isSelected() (S in selected is in uppercase).

You can also try using an alternative, for example, isChecked() or isActive() method instead of isSelected(). See if that works for you.

Try something like

boolean v=driver.findElement(By.xpath("the xpath here")).isChecked( );