Selenium C# Tutorial: Web Browser Elements (Checkbox)
Updated: Mar 5
In this article, I want to review the "Check-box" element', and the different methods selenium provides to handle it.
Definition: A checkbox is a graphical control element that permits the user to make a binary choice between one of two possible mutually exclusive options. For example, the user may have to answer 'yes' (checked) or 'no' (not checked) on a simple yes/no question (Reference: Wiki).
In the next example, I will use the following site:
https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/standard/forms/checkbox/
Example 1: Validate the status of a checkbox (Checked/Unchecked)
in the following example, we will validate whether a checkbox is selected or not and print its status to the console. To validate the checkbox status, we will use the "element.Selected" Property.
Steps:
Validate the status of the "Default" checkbox (Return False).
Click on the checkbox.
Validate the status of the "Default" checkbox (Return True).
Code:
class Program
{
public int MyProperty { get; set; }
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string checkboxElement = "flexCheckDefault";
IWebDriver firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
Backlog.TestPreperationGeneralSites(firefoxDriver, "https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/standard/forms/checkbox/");
Backlog.ValidateCheckboxStatus(firefoxDriver, checkboxElement);
}
}
static public class Backlog
{
static IWebElement searchFieldtextBox;
static IWebElement searchFieldButton;
static IWebElement checkBoxToValidate;
internal static void TestPreperationForMachTested(IWebDriver webDriver)
{
webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.machtested.com/");
Thread.Sleep(15000);
webDriver.FindElement(By.Id("fclose-button")).Click();//Approve FaceBook Bunner
}
internal static void ValidateCheckboxStatus(IWebDriver driver, string checkbox)
{
checkBoxToValidate = driver.FindElement(By.Id(checkbox));
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
if (checkBoxToValidate.Selected == true)
{
Console.WriteLine("Checkbox Status of test #1: Checkbox is selected");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Checkbox Status of test #1: Checkbox is unselected");
}
checkBoxToValidate.Click();
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
if (checkBoxToValidate.Selected == true)
{
Console.WriteLine("Checkbox Status of test #2: Checkbox is selected");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Checkbox Status of test #2: Checkbox is unselected");
}
}
internal static void TestPreperationForAgileQuality(IWebDriver webDriver)
{
webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.agilequalitymadeeasy.com/");
Thread.Sleep(15000);
webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div[2]/div/div[2]/button[2]")).Click();
}
internal static void TestPreperationGeneralSites(IWebDriver webDriver, string siteName)
{
webDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl(siteName);
Thread.Sleep(3000);
webDriver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
}
internal static void LocateSearchFieldInBlog(IWebDriver driver, string elementLocation, string textToAdd)
{
try
{
searchFieldtextBox = driver.FindElement(By.Name(elementLocation));
searchFieldtextBox.SendKeys(textToAdd); //Add Text
searchFieldtextBox.Clear();//Clear Text
searchFieldtextBox.SendKeys(textToAdd + "Re-Adding test"); //Re-add test
Console.WriteLine(searchFieldtextBox.GetAttribute("value"));//Get Text in the field
}
catch (NoSuchElementException)
{
Console.WriteLine("Element is not found");
}
}
internal static void LocateButton(IWebDriver driver, string elementLocation)
{
try
{
searchFieldButton = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName(elementLocation));
searchFieldButton.Click();
}
catch (NoSuchElementException)
{
Console.WriteLine("Element is not found");
}
}
}
Result
Example 2: Validate the status of a checkbox (Checked/Unchecked)
In this example, I will use the checkbox attribute instead of the "Selected" property to validate the status of the checkbox. As you can see in the example below, when a checkbox is selected, we will see the "checked" attribute, which we can use to ensure the selection status of the element.
Code
Here is the small change I made in the "ValidateCheckboxStatus" method:
internal static void ValidateCheckboxStatus(IWebDriver driver, string checkbox)
{
checkBoxToValidate = driver.FindElement(By.Id(checkbox));
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
if (checkBoxToValidate.GetAttribute("checked") == "true")
{
Console.WriteLine("Checkbox Status of test #1: Checkbox is selected");
}
else