Pulling dropdown elements into datagridview rows

Question

I am pulling the dropdown elements into the datagridview with Selenium, but all the drawn elements are displayed in a single cell. How can I pull all the elements one by one in the rows of the same column?

IList<IWebElement> options = drv.FindElements(By.Id("dersler")); // tüm dropdown listesini veriri
foreach (IWebElement option in options)
{
for (int i = 0; i < options.Count; i++)
{
dataGridView1.Rows[0].Cells[1].Value = option.Text.ToString();
}
}

Naimish Makwana · Answer

It seems like you’re using Selenium with C#, and you’re trying to use Select and getText() . In C#, the equivalent methods are a bit different: Select : In C#, to select an option from a dropdown, you would typically use the SelectElement class from the OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI namespace1. Here’s an example: IWebElement dropdown = driver.FindElement(By.Id("id")); // replace "id" with the id of your dropdown SelectElement selectElement = new SelectElement(dropdown); selectElement.SelectByText("Option"); // replace "Option" with the option you want to select getText() : In C#, the equivalent of getText() is Text property1. Here’s an example: IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("id")); // replace "id" with the id of your element string text = element.Text; If you’re still facing issues, you might need to check if you have the necessary Selenium WebDriver bindings for .NET installed. You can do this by going to the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio and checking if Selenium.WebDriver and Selenium.Support packages are installed2. If they’re not installed, you can install them by running the following commands in the Package Manager Console: Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver Install-Package Selenium.Support Please replace "id" and "Option" with the actual id of your dropdown and the actual option you want to select respectively. If you have any specific requirements. Thanks

Naimish Makwana · Answer

To pull all the dropdown elements into separate rows of a DataGridView, you can follow these steps: First, get all the elements from the dropdown. Here’s how you can do it in Selenium: Select dropdown = new Select(driver.FindElement(By.Id("id"))); // replace "id" with the id of your dropdown List dd = dropdown.getOptions(); Then, for each element in the dropdown, create a new row in the DataGridView and set the value of the cell in that row to the text of the dropdown element. Here’s a basic example: foreach (WebElement option in dd) { int rowIndex = dataGridView1.Rows.Add(); // Add a new row dataGridView1.Rows[rowIndex].Cells["YourColumnName"].Value = option.getText(); // replace "YourColumnName" with the name of your column } This will create a new row for each dropdown element and set the value of a cell in that row to the text of the dropdown element12. Please replace "id" and "YourColumnName" with the actual id of your dropdown and the actual name of your column respectively. Also, please make sure that the DataGridView allows adding new rows. You can set dataGridView1.AllowUserToAddRows = true; to allow this. Remember, this is a basic example. Depending on your exact requirements and the structure of your DataGridView, you might need to adjust this code. For example, if you have multiple columns and you want to add values to them, you would need to set the values for those cells too. If you have any specific requirements. Thanks

Mehmet Fatih · Answer

I have changed my codes as in the following. But I still have a problem. I want to list a lesson in each line. All courses are listed in a single line. How can I correct this situation.?The second problem is how can I print these in the 3rd column? IList selectElements = drv.FindElements(By.Id("dersler")); foreach (IWebElement select in selectElements) { var selectElement = new SelectElement(select); List lst = new List (); lst.Add(select.Text); DataTable dt = new DataTable(); DataColumn dtcol = new DataColumn(select.Text); dt.Columns.Add(dtcol); for (int i = 0; i { dataGridView1.DataSource = dt; } }

Naimish Makwana · Answer

Can you paste you error in english ?

Mehmet Fatih · Answer

Both Package Selenium.WebDriver and Package Selenium.Support are intalled. I hve tried the second alternative but nothing seems. I modifed the first alternative like that IList options = drv.FindElements(By.Id("dersler")); // tüm dropdown listesini veriri for (int i = 0; i { IWebElement element = drv.FindElement(By.Id("ddlDersler")); // replace "id" with the id of your element //string text = element.Text; int rowIndex = dataGridView1.Rows.Add(); // Add a new row dataGridView1.Rows[rowIndex].Cells[1].Value = element.Text.ToString(); } } But in this case I am getting the following error.

Mehmet Fatih · Answer

I am getting errors in these circled places. Do I need to upload anything to nuGet?

Mehmet Fatih · Answer

Naimish, the error code English is like that "Rows cannot be programmatically added to the datagridview's rows collection when the control is data bound."