How to get selected value from Select drop-down

[IamRajB]

Hi @adrianth

I want to get the selected option's text/value from a drop-down. Is there any way to get that?

For e.g. In a scenario where I want to verify there is no option selected at all. How can I achieve that?

[adrianth]

If you just need to validate the selected value in the dropdown, you can use the AssertListOption keyword. You can validate the selected item by option number, option value or the option text.

If you need to read the value so you can use it further, the only option I can think of is to just run a client-side script using ExecuteScript.

For the time being, the only way to verify that there is no option selected is by using the ExecuteScript keyword and to run JavaScript on the client side, something like this:

- description: Read dropdown value
  action: org.getopentest.selenium.ExecuteScript
  args:
    script: |
        var e = document.getElementById("drop-down-id");
        return e.selectedIndex; // will be -1 if nothing is selected

- script: |
    $log("The selected index is: " + $output.result)

Keep in mind that this also depends on the implementation of the dropdown. For example, most implementations use a first option with an empty value, so in this case the selectedIndex property will actually be 0 instead of -1. If that's the case, then you can simply validate the selected option by using the AssertListOption keyword that I mentioned in the beginning.

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