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I am using selenium, testng and java with ecplipse to perform an automated test. I'm having success with commands like click on a button (selenium.click ("button"), pass values ​​to textboxes (selenium.type ("component", "value") and clicks too, but when it comes with a component type dropdownlist (relating to common or asp.net mvc) I can not select the field with the command seleniu. select ("field", "value").

To select the values ​​and even the fields, I am using xpath to it, but even so, with the dropdownlist can not, or can partially.

When a dropdownlist accept the value I type, I can use the selenium.click but if not, nothing I've tried so far does not.

using webdriver you can do it with Select class i have posted a code which was working below please
have a look on that,Select Class had api to select the drop down values by its index as well as value,have a look on Select api for more info

 public static void dropdown() 
 
 WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
 driver.get("http://demosthenes.info/blog/166/HTML-Forms-Drop-down-Menus");
 Select sele = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("state")));
 sele.selectByIndex(1);
 

WebElement select = driver.findElement(By.id("selection"));
List<WebElement> options = select.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
for (WebElement option : options) 
 if("Germany".equals(option.getText()))
 option.click();

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
WebElement dBox1= (new WebDriverWait(driver,10)).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("selection""))). selectByVisibleText("");
actions.moveToElement(dBox1);
actions.click();
actions.perform();

You have to use Select in selenium to select from the drop down value.

//by ID

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
new Select (driver.findElement(By.id("usState"))).selectByVisibleText("FL");

//by XPath

new Select (driver.findElement(By.xpath("xPath for dropdown"))).selectByVisibleText("FL");

There are several ways to select elements from dropdown list. Below are some of them you can keep them as common drop-down operation and call what ever method you need.

//select the dropdown using "select by visible text"
 public static void dropDownSelectByText(WebElement webElement, String VisibleText)
 Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
 selObj.selectByVisibleText(VisibleText);
 

//select the dropdown using "select by index"
public static void dropDownSelectByIndex(WebElement webElement, int IndexValue)
 Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
 selObj.selectByIndex(IndexValue);


//select the dropdown using "select by value"
public static void dropDownSelectByValue(WebElement webElement, String Value)
 Select selObj=new Select(webElement);
 selObj.selectByValue(Value);

You can call above methods like

CommonPageOperations.dropDownSelectByValue(selectSubClientFromDropDownXpath,strSubClientName);

Drop down list appear only if mouse move to specific location, Then you have to use Actions as well

public void mouseMoveToExpandIcon()
 Actions action = new Actions(driver);
 action.moveToElement(expandButtonXpath).perform();