Handling CheckBoxes in selenium

Checkboxes can be identifies in html DOM with tag as ‘input’ and type as ‘checkbox’ as shown in below screenshot.

capture all the checkboxes in a webpage:

List<webelement> checkboxes = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("input[type='checkbox']"));

But let’s say, we want to capture a particular group of checkboxes (based on name attribute), in the above screenshot, as u can see, we have a group of checkboxes with all as atribute name ‘language’

List<webelement> checkboxes = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("input[type='checkbox'][name='language']"));

Let’s see the code for the checkbox operations:

package controls;

import java.util.List;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class CheckBoxes {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("http://www.qavalidation.com/demo");
  List checkboxes = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("input[type='checkbox'][name='language']"));
  
  //get the 2nd and 3rd checkboxes and check
  checkboxes.get(1).click();
  checkboxes.get(2).click();
  
  for(int i=0;i<checkboxes.size();i++){
   WebElement e=checkboxes.get(i);
   if(e.getAttribute("value").contains("Java") && e.getAttribute("checked")==null)
   {
    e.click(); //check, if the checkbox is 'Java' and not checked
   }
  }
  for (WebElement e1 : checkboxes) {
   System.out.print("CheckBox:"+ e1.getAttribute("value")+"---");
   System.out.println("checked:"+ e1.getAttribute("checked"));//checked or not 
  }
 }
}

CheckBoxTestingBasics---checked: null
CheckBoxSelenium---checked: true
CheckBoxHTML---checked: true
CheckBoxJava---checked: true
CheckBoxC#---checked: null

e.getAttribute(“value”) returns the value of a particular checkbox.
e.getAttribute(“checked”) returns null if a particular checkbox is not checked else return true.