Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.
select is one of the commands in Selenium IDE.
The purpose of select command in Selenium IDE, is to select an option from the dropdown field.
In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate select command in Selenium IDE for selecting a dropdown option as shown below:
Let’s get started.
New Selenium IDE – Using ‘select’ command for selecting a dropdown option
Follow the below steps for practicing select command in Selenium IDE along with me:
1) Execute the open command in Selenium IDE as explained in the previous article: Selenium IDE – open command
2) Now click on the second row in the Selenium IDE’s Test Script Editor Box as shown below:
3) While the second row is selected in step 2, enter the Selenium IDE command ‘select’ to the Command box field, enter the id locating strategy id=drop1 into the Target box field and enter ‘label=doc 4‘ shown below:
Note: The locating strategy id=drop1 is for locating the dropdown field on the http://omayo.blogspot.com/ URL page (Shown at the beginning of the article).
And ‘label=doc 4’ needs to be entered to the ‘Value’ field in Selenium IDE, to select the ‘doc 4’ option in the above-stated dropdown field.
4) Click on ‘Run current test’ option as shown below:
5) Observe that the select command in the Selenium IDE will be executed, and the ‘doc 4’ option in the dropdown field will be selected as shown below:
Here concludes the practical demonstration of select command in Selenium IDE.
In the next article, I will practically demonstrate another Selenium IDE command.
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Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.