Selenium WebDriver : Working with Checkboxes

In this post we are going to learn about automating the interaction with Checkboxes. Checkbox is an HTML Web Page element which allows users to select one or more options that are listed on a Web Page. Users just need to select the required option from the list, so we just need to click the Checkbox Option through our Automation script to select one of the Checkboxes.

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HTML Source Code for checkboxes looks like :

<input id="checkBox1" type="checkbox">

<input id="checkBox2" type="checkbox">

<input id="checkBox3" type="checkbox">  

We need to find the required checkbox(s) and click on it. Sounds simple right ?

So let's see how that can be done :

public class Sample {

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      //Initialize Browser

      System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "Path to geckodriver.exe");

      WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

      driver.manage().window().maximize(); 

      driver.get("Web Page URL");
 

      //Find Element and Click

      WebElement element = driver.findElement("Checkbox locator");

      element.click();

   }
}

element.click() will click on the required checkbox option.

So that's the way we can click on the required checkbox option through our Automation script.

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Selenium WebDriver : Getting text from Web Page

If you want to get some text (full / partial) that is displayed on Web Page, for verification, data extraction or any other purpose, we have some WebDriver methods that will do the job for us. Users with basic Object-Oriented knowledge can easily use these methods to achieve what is required.

In Types of Locators, we have seen different techniques to locate Web Page elements that are required to be found during Test Automation. It includes finding by ID, ClassName, Tag, LinkText, etc. that can be achieved by using appropriate Selenium WebDriver methods using the WebDriver Object instance.

In this post, we are going to see the way of extracting text from Web Page using Selenium WebDriver. Trust me it is as simple as one line of code.
Check the following code snippet :

public class Sample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Initialize Browser
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "E:\\AllJARS\\Selenium_Driver_Servers\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

//Find element
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href='https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm']"));

//Get Text
System.out.println(element.getText());
}
}

The above code snippet navigates to Google, finds link (Gmail), extracts the text (Gmail) and prints it on console.

getText() method is used to extract the text from the Web Page element found using one of the locating techniques.
In this way we can find the required element and get or extract the required text from the Web Page. Further, we can use any substring() method provided by Java to get the desired String value (reduced length compared to Original String).

element.getText();

So, the above line of code can be used to extract the text from Web Page as required. Simple, isn't it ?

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