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How to select a drop down values using Selenium WebDriver, we have to create a Select an element and will not use the default Web Elements provided by Selenium Webdriver. Let’s consider below drop-down example to select a value using Selenium WebDriver.

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1.HTML Dropdown Code:

<select id="citySelect">
<option value="option1">Ahmedabad</option>
<option value="option2">Hyderabad</option>
<option value="option3">Mumbai</option>
<option value="option4">Pune</option>
</select>

1.1 Identify the HTML Element to Select value

Selenium WebDriver providing WebElement class to  identify the or store web element as below

WebElement CitySelection = driver.findElement(By.id(“citySelect”));
Select dropdown= new Select(CitySelection);

Another method is directly you can pass in WebElement as below

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id(“citySelect”)));

1.2 Select an Option

You can select drodown options by three ways

1.selectByVisibleText(String)
2.selectByIndex(int)
3.selectByValue(String)

2.1 selectByVisibleText:

You can select dropdown value by matching visible text as below

dropdown.selectByVisibleText(“Hyderabad”)

2.2 selectByIndex:

You can select the dropDown value by index attribute of an element as below

dropdown.selectByIndex(2)

index =1 means Ahmedabad
index=2 means Hyderabad

2.3 selectByValue:

You can select dropDown value by Optioon Value in above HTML code we've used multiple options 1,2,3,4 and code will be

drodown.selectByValue("option2")
dropdown.selectByValue("option1")

3.Complete Selenium Webdriver Code as follows:

WebElement CitySelection = driver.findElement(By.id("citySelect"));
Select dropdown= new Select(CitySelection);
dropdown.selectByIndex(2);
dropdown.selectByValue("option1");
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("Hyderabad");