How can i get the value from a dropdown of div class in selenium webdriver?

Question

How can i select a value from the dropdown using selenium web driver

Answer 1

Here the drop down is implemented using a ul and li, so you can't use WebDriver's Select class, it will throw UnexpectedTagNameException if you do so.

What you need to do in this case, write a custom select method like below to help you.

    public void select_by_index(int index){
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//ul[@role='listbox']")).click();
        WebElement _element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//ul[@role='listbox']//li)[" + index+ "]")); 
        _element.click();
    }

So what we are doing here:

• Click the drop down to show all the options, so that they are visible.
• We are dynamically creating xpath for different element in the drop-down list and then clicking on the elements.
• If you pass 2 as argument, it will select 'Change of Mind' from the drop-down and so on.

Try this and let us know if this works in your case. The code is just for illustration purpose.