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Handling Radio buttons
Handling Radio buttons
In this section, you'll learn how to manage selenium web driver radio buttons.
The procedures to manage the radio buttons are then followed:
Step 1: Invoke a browser running Google Chrome.
The code to invoke a Google chrome browser is given below:
package mypack;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Class1
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\work\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
}
}
Step 2 : The second step is to move to the web site where the radio buttons must be managed.
I built an html file that contains the buttons buttons. The specification is set out below:
<html> <head> </head> <body> <input type="radio" name="group1" value="html">HTML<br> <input type="radio" name="group1" value="css">CSS<br> <input type="radio" name="group1" value="js">JS<br> <hr> <input type="radio" name="group2" value="php">PHP<br> <input type="radio" name="group2" value="jQ">jQuery<br> <input type="radio" name="group2" value="boots">Bootstrap<br> </body> </html>
The code for navigating to the above html file is given below:
package mypack;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Class1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\work\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/radio.html");
}
}
Step 3: Choose Banana as option. Through examining their HTML codes, we can find the radio button in JS.
The radio buttons are treated in two ways:
- Use the Custom Path:
The code illustrated below handles the radio button using the custom path.
package mypack;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Class1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\work\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/radio.html");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='JS']")).click();
}
}
We use custom-made Xpath in the above. Radio buttons have a special attribute, i.e., meaning, and we use the meaning attribute to manage the button on the radio.
Now we can use the index of a particular radio button to manage the radio buttons.
- And creative handling of the radio buttons.
- We'll first calculate the number of buttons on the radio. The line of code that calculates the number of radio buttons is as follows.
- int a = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input [@name='group1']")).size();
- The code line above measures the number of radio buttons with group1 as their name.
- driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@name='group1']")).get(2).click();
Source code
package mypack;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Class1 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\work\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/radio.html");
int a = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input [@name='group1']")).size();
System.out.println(a);
for(int i=1;i<=a;i++)
{
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@name='group1']")).get(2).click();
}
}}
We use 'for' loop in the function above. In the 'for' loop, we locate group1 's third radio button by using the form get(2).