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Handling Radio buttons

In this section, you will learn how to handle radio buttons in selenium web driver.

Following are the steps to handle the radio buttons:

Step 1: Invoke the Google Chrome browser.

The code to invoke a Google chrome browser is given below:

Step 2: The second step is to navigate to the website in which we need to handle the radio buttons.

I created the html file which contains the radio buttons. The code is given below:

The code for navigating to the above html file is given below:

The output of the above code:

Step 3: Select the option Banana. We will locate the Banana radio button by inspecting its HTML codes.

There are two ways of handling the radio buttons:

• By using the customized path:

The code shown below handles the radio button by using the customized path.

In the above, we use custom Xpath. Radio buttons contain a unique attribute, i.e., value, so we use the value attribute to handle the radio button.

Output

• By handling the radio buttons dynamically.
  • We will first calculate the number of radio buttons. The following is the line of code which calculates the number of radio buttons.

    int a = driver.findElements(By.xpath(“//input [@name=’group1′]”)).size();

    The above line of code calculates the number of radio buttons whose name is group1.

  • Now, we will handle the radio buttons by using the index of a particular radio button.

    driver.findElements(By.xpath(“//input[@name=’group1′]”)).get(2).click();

Source code

In the above code, we use ‘for’ loop. Inside the ‘for’ loop, we find the third radio button of group1 by using the get(2) method.

Output