How to select values in dropdown using select in Selenium

•  How to define an element of type dropdown or tag as select: We can define a element of type dropdown using the statement as shown below:             

Select selectElement = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("SelectApp")));

• Example of Select tag in html page: Below example shows how the values are defined in a select dropdown.

<select id="SelectApp">
<option value="Facebook">FB</option>
<option value="TasteBook">TB</option>
<option value="ClassBook">CB</option>
<option value="HomeBook">HB</option>
<option value="TestBook">TTB</option>
</select>

• SelectByValue would select the option from the dropdown for option: <option value="Facebook">FB</option> if provided. selectByValue: Selects value based on argument value for the tag.

 selectElement.selectByValue("Facebook");  

• selectByVisibleText: Select value based on the text of the tag

selectElement.selectByVisibleText("FB");        

• selectByIndex: select the fifth dropdown using selectByIndex

 selectByIndex.selectByIndex(4);