How to verify value in drop down list.


Its difficult to find element with some specific attributes.
Take an example How to find some value is in drop down list or not? 
To find element drop down is easy but to find a drop down having some specific value in their list is difficult.


Go to www.google.com  and click Advanced Search, you will see there are some drop down boxes.

How to verify a specific value "50 results" is in drop down list.




Here is the script for finding the value is in drop down or not





package test;


import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;


import org.openqa.selenium.server.*;
import org.testng.annotations.*;




public class Dropdownall {
public Selenium selenium;
public SeleniumServer seleniumserver;


  @BeforeClass
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
RemoteControlConfiguration rc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
seleniumserver = new SeleniumServer(rc);
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexplore", "http://");
seleniumserver.start();
selenium.start();
}


@Test
public void testDropdownall()throws Exception {

selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
selenium.windowMaximize();
selenium.click("link=Advanced Search");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("50000");

//Verifying Element is Present or not here i used xpath to find that

if(selenium.isElementPresent("//select[@name='num']/option[contains(text(),'50 results')]"))
{
System.out.println("ys");
}


}
   
 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown()throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
seleniumserver.stop();
 
 }
 }



//select[@name='num']/option[contains(text(),'50 results')]





Here name=num is the name of the dropdown u can see it in HTML code...
We used contains (text(),50 results') .....

Here is the post which will explain you 

How to select a value from drop down
Identify the selected value in drop down.
Display the values in drop down
Verifying Element is Present or not here i used xpath to find that


package test;


import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;


import org.openqa.selenium.server.*;
import org.testng.annotations.*;




public class Dropdownselectvalue {
public Selenium selenium;
public SeleniumServer seleniumserver;


  @BeforeClass
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
RemoteControlConfiguration rc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
seleniumserver = new SeleniumServer(rc);
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*iexplore", "http://");
seleniumserver.start();
selenium.start();
}


@Test
public void testDropdownselectvalue()throws Exception {

selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
selenium.windowMaximize();
selenium.click("link=Advanced Search");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("50000");
// Print all the available options from the results dropdown in the
String[] options = selenium.getSelectOptions("name=num");
// The above command returns a array of strings(options)
    for (int i = 0; i < options.length; i++) {
System.out.println("Option: " + i + " is " + options[i]);
}
//select value from dropdown
    selenium.select("num", "label=30 results");
    //Print the selected value from dropdown
String s=selenium.getSelectedValue("name=num");
System.out.println("selected value is "+s);

//Verifying Element is Present or not here i used xpath to find that if(selenium.isElementPresent("//select[@name='num']/option[contains(text(),'50 results')]")) { System.out.println("ys"); }


}
   
 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown()throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
seleniumserver.stop();
 
 }
 }

The below script explains you how to get the values in a dropdown and print the values to a notepad or excel sheet using the xpath...




import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.server.*;
import org.testng.annotations.*;


public class Dropdowngooglexpath {
public Selenium selenium;
public SeleniumServer seleniumserver;

  @BeforeClass
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
RemoteControlConfiguration rc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
seleniumserver = new SeleniumServer(rc);
selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://");
seleniumserver.start();
selenium.start();
}

@Test
public void testDropdowngoogle()throws Exception {
selenium.open("http://www.google.com");
//click on Advanced Search Window
    selenium.click("link=Advanced Search");    
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("5000");
     //Print all the available options from the results dropdown in the google advanced search page
//here i am using xpath to identify the element
    String[] option = selenium.getSelectOptions("xpath=/html/body/table[2]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td/div/form/div/table[2]/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]/select");      
    //The above command returns a array of strings(options)
   //write results to excel and note pad
    File file = new File("C:/Dropdownvalues.xls");//excel
    File file1 = new File("C:/Dropdownvalues.txt");//notepad
    BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));//excel
    BufferedWriter out1 = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file1));//notepad
    out.write("Options in drop down\n");//Excel
    out1.write("Options in drop down\n");//notepad
    for (int i = 0; i < option.length; i++) {
        System.out.println("Option: " + i + " is" + option[i]);
        out.write(""+option[i]);
        out.newLine();      
        out1.write(""+option[i]);
        out1.newLine();      
    }
    out.close();//excel
    out1.close();//notepad
  }
 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown()throws Exception {
selenium.stop();
seleniumserver.stop();

 }
 }