How to count the number of options in a select drop down box in Selenium WebDriver using Java?

Question

I have Select Dropdown list with this:

xpath //*[@id="ddlTablePay"] 

I need to count the number of options in this drop-down. Thank You

Justiceship

iterate it and simple increase counter by one – Anesthesia

dont we have any inbuilt function for that? – Justiceship

Why haven't you accepted one of the answers? – Jotun

As the element as ID, you should use ID instead of xpath. Because ID is more preferable than xpath. – Lebrun

Answer 1

Use .getOptions() method and store them in a list .Then find its size.

Select se = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("select drop down locator")));

List<WebElement> l = se.getOptions();
l.size();

Antispasmodic

Answer 2

String[] options = driver.findElement(By.id("dropdown")).getText().split("\n");
options.length;

Insouciant

maybe elaborate on the solution? – Albina

Answer 3

Use .getXpathCount() method

int numOptions = selenium.getXpathCount("//*[@id='ddlTablePay']/option").intValue();

Lunate

Answer 4

optionItems = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@id='ddlTablePay']"))
print "Total Elements " + str(len(optionItems.options))

Fukien

Answer 5

To count the number of options

Select dropDown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("ddlTablePay")));
List<WebElement> elementCount = dropDown.getOptions();
System.out.println("Number of items: " + elementCount.size());

To get and print all the Options

Select dropDown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("ddlTablePay")));
        List <WebElement> elementCount = dropDown.getOptions();
        int itemSize = elementCount.size();
        for(int i = 0; i < itemSize ; i++){
            String optionsValue = elementCount.get(i).getText();
            System.out.println(optionsValue);
        }

Lebrun

I have used ID instead of xpath though xpath also definitely works. ID is more preferable than xpath if any control/element has ID. – Lebrun

Answer 6

Pass the xpath of the dropdown whose count you want:

static int getDropdownListCount(String xpath) {
        
    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath));
    Select select = new Select(element);
    List<WebElement> elements = select.getOptions();
    return elements.size();
}

It'll return count of total number of options under that dropdown.

Maldives

Answer 7

you can use the below syntax to count the number of element in drop down list. First you need to read anyone element from drop down list as below.

String report1 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath of first element of dropdown list")).getText();

String [] element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("your-xpath-complete drop down section")).getText().split("\n");

elements.length

elements.length is the number of elements present in your drop down list

Salter