How to print the text of the selected option choosen through 'selectByVisibleText' method in selenium

Question

I am new to Selenium, could any one of you let me know how to print the value selected from 'selectByVisibleText' in selenium?

I have run the test on Facebook login page, drop down for Birthday.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Once you have selected the option by visible text, you can get the option as a WebElement and getText() from it.

Example:

Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("some-id")));
select.selectByVisibleText("some-text");
WebElement element = select.getFirstSelectedOption();
System.out.println(element.getText());

Answer 2

Once you select the option through selectByVisibleText() method to print the value you need to invoke getFirstSelectedOption() method as follows:

• Code Block:

   Select month_dd = new Select(month_dropdown); month_dd.selectByVisibleText("Dec"); WebElement myElem = month_dd.getFirstSelectedOption(); System.out.println(myElem.getText()); 

• Console Output:

   Dec PASSED: selectDDvalues =============================================== Default test Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0 ===============================================