How to eliminate this error Cannot instantiate the type Select in selenium webdriver

Question

I was writing a code for my website for testing purpose.I added/imported all the jar files also, but still could not use Select Class in eclipse.

It throws an error: Select class cannot be instantiated.

Below is  my code:

import org.apache.bcel.generic.Select; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select; public class Dropdown { public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://www.makemytrip.com"); WebElementaddress=driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//[@id='to_typeahead1']")); Select sc = new Select (address); // ERROR LINE sc.selectByIndex(5); } }

Answer 1

Try below code.

Select sc = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("your Xpath match case"))); 

                                 **//this will get the dropdown into sc object**

List<WebElement> we = sc.getOptions();  **//to get the options values into list**

System.out.println(we.size());  **//to print the size in console, this and

                                  previous lines for debug/cross checking**

sc.selectByIndex(5);  **//this will select the 5th index and 6th value(indexing starts from 0)**