Handling Drop downs using Selenium with Python

Handling drop-down:

 The Select class in selenium is used to handle the drop-down. The drop-down is created in an HTML document using the <select> tag.

    

    In order to utilize the Select class methods, we need to import "selenium.webdriver.support.select.Select" in our code.

The selenium Select class contains the following sub-functions:

• options: This function gets the all options in the dropdown in a list of web elements.
• Syntax:
• dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "tcg"))
• all_options = dropdown.options
• 
  
• print(len(all_options))
• 
  
• for option in all_options:
•       option.click()
• 
  
• all_options[2].click()
• select_by_visible_text("VisibleText"): This function selects the options based on the visible text in the drop-down.
• Syntax:
• dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "tcg"))
• dropdown.select_by_visible_text("India")
• select_by_value("value"): This function selects the option based on the value attribute.
• Syntax:
• dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "tcg"))
• dropdown.select_by_value("ind")
• select_by_index(index): To select an option, use the index number. Keep in mind that the index starts from zero, so to select the first option, use 0 as the index. For the second option, use 1 as the index, and so on. By using the correct index, you can easily select the desired option.
• Syntax:
• dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "tcg"))
• dropdown.select_by_index(4)

Similarly, there are functions to deselect the selected option:

• deselect_all()
• deselect_by_visible_text("visibletext")
• deselect_by_value("value")
• deselect_by_index(index)

is_multiple: we can use this function to ensure whether the specified dropdown is a multi-select option dropdown or not. This method returns True when the corresponding dropdown is multi-select.

• Syntax:
• dropdown = Select(driver.find_element(By.ID, "tcg"))
• multidrp = dropdown.is_multiple
• if multidrp:
•       print("The Dropdown is Multi-Select")
• else:
•       print("The Dropdown is not Multi-Select")