select randomly from dropdown list?

Question

My html sample code is,

 <div class="list">
    <div class="dropdown">
        <ul role="menu">
            <li class="rsbListItem">one</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">two</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">three</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">four</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">five</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">six</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">seven</li>
            <li class="rsbListItem">eight</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

How can i write Selenium scripts for this, and each time when i run it should select randomly.

I have tried to pick random elements,but it's selecting the same element each time. Here is my code.

List<WebElement> options = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@role='menu']"));
Random rand = new Random();
int list= rand.nextInt(options.size());
options.get(list).click();

Solution

Selenium is not my thing but

List<WebElement> options = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@role='menu']"));

This will return a list of WebElement match your request. So you should get the element (should be only one I guess) to work with it. You could also use findElement I guess.

Then, you will need to get every Option in the select you have.

List<WebElement> selects = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@role='menu']"));
Random rand = new Random();
for(WebElement select : selects){
    List<WebElement> options = // get every option in it
    int list = rand.nextInt(options.size());
    options.get(list).click();
}

Comments

[User]

When i use 'getOptions()' to get all the options from the dropdown , i need to use 'Select' . But 'Select' is used only in 'select' tagname, for other tagname like 'div' or 'ul' it shows me an error like org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "div"

[AxelH]

@User I can't really help more, I don't use Selenium myself. But in HTML, a dropdown is create like <select><option></option></select>. Not with <ul><li></li></ul> This might be your first mistake.

[Anantha Raju C]

Adding explanation to your answer would help

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