Tutorial 7 – Work with dropdowns using Playwright-Java
What you will Learn in this blog:
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 1)
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 2)
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 3)
Use ‘Record’ feature to help select value from dropdown
Code snippets
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 1)
Launch
https://www.way2automation.com/way2auto_jquery/dropdown.php#load_box
The use case that we’d automate now is: count the number of countries in the ‘Select Country’ dropdown and print all of them
Inspect the dropdown, it is ‘select’ tag
We can expand the ‘select’ tag to see all the ‘otions’. On executing the ‘select option’ locator query, we see total number of countries#239
We can now use the same locator ‘select option’ in line#21 and print the total count
Save and execute, the same count 239 is printed in console
When we click the dropdown, we see lot of countries
We can fetch the text of all these countires using a ‘for’ loop (lines#25-28).
We can use the inbuilt ‘nth()’ method that in-turn calls the textContent() method
Save and execute
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 2)
We can also use slightly simpler method to print the text of all the countries using ‘List’.
We can directly call the ‘allTextContents()’ method
Comment method#1.
Save and execute
Fetch and count dropdown options (method 3)
We can also use a further much simpler ‘forEach’ loop, see Method#3
Comment method#2.
Save and execute
Use ‘Record’ feature to help select value from dropdown
We will now see how to select a value from dropdown
Let us use the ‘select’ locator to select ‘Albania’ from the dropdown (see line#29)
Save and execute the script.
We get an error, see below.
If we carefully observe the error, it is hinting us that the webpage is a frame and hence we can’t simply select an element from the frame
If we right click this page, it confirms that the page is indeed a frame
Let us put a page.pause() debug statement at the end of the script (to open the inspector), so that we can record the action to select a value from dropdown
Save and execute.
Click ‘Record’ to start recording the events.
Click the dropdown and select ‘Albania’. Notice that the corresponding line that’s recorded in the inspector and it indeed is a frameLocator
Copy this line and paste it in the script
Stop recording by clicking ‘Record’ button
Close inspector
Comment debug line
Execute script.
This time, ‘Albania’ gets selected, see below
So this is how we can work with dropdown.
Code snippet
package com.w2a.pwjava;
//import java.awt.List;
import java.util.List;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserType;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Locator;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;
public class CountFetchDropdownOptions {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Playwright pw = Playwright.create();
Browser browser = pw.chromium().launch(new BrowserType.LaunchOptions().setHeadless(false));
BrowserContext browserContext = browser.newContext();
Page page = browserContext.newPage();
page.navigate("https://www.way2automation.com/way2auto_jquery/dropdown.php#load_box");
Locator loc = page.locator("select option");
int country_cnt = loc.count();
System.out.println("The count of countries:-->" + country_cnt);
//select dropdown value
page.frameLocator("#example-1-tab-1 iframe").locator("select").selectOption("Albania");
/*
//Method 1
for(int i=0; i<loc.count(); i++) {
String country_text = loc.nth(i).textContent();
System.out.println(country_text);
}
//Method 2
List<String> country_text = loc.allTextContents();
for(String str: country_text) {
System.out.println(str);
}
//Method 3
List<String> country_text = loc.allTextContents();
country_text.forEach(str -> System.out.println(str));
*/
//page.pause();
}
}
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