How to choose from a drop-down in Selenium 2

Question

I am converting my code from selenium1 to selenium2. And i'm not able to find a simple way to select a label in a drop down menu or get the selected value of a drop down. Do you know how to do that in Selenium 2?

Here are two statements that work in Selenium 1 but not in 2:

browser.select("//path_to_drop_down", "Value1");
browser.getSelectedValue("//path_to_drop_down");

Answer 1

You can probably use the 'Select' class that comes with WebDriver. You can select one based on visible text.

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//path_to_drop_down")));
select.deselectAll();
select.selectByVisibleText("Value1");

You can use xpath or maybe cssSelector or name or id locators. To get the first selected value:

WebElement option = select.getFirstSelectedOption()

Or maybe use WebDriver default functions like below.

driver.findElement(By.id("id_dropdown_menu")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath_of-element")).click();