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Quick Tip: Selenium – select / deselect a value from a dropdown

The What

Having an HTML dropdown on a web page, i would like to select, via Selenium, an element from it, or deselect the selected one.

An example of an HTML representation of a dropdown can be found below – it displays a list of winter months:

<select id="winter">
 <option value="Dec">December</option>
 <option value="Jan">January</option>
 <option value="Feb">February</option>
 </select>

This element would look something like:

dropdown

The task is to easily select / deselect an element from the dropdwon.

The How

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