How to select a value from a dropdown list in Selenium Webdriver

There are two methods out of which first one is preferrable:

Method1:

First you have to get the Select element of the dropdown using below statement

Select dropdown = new Select(

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions

.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("elementid"))));

Then using the Select element you get, you can select the dropdown value by using any of the below statement

dropdown.selectByVisibleText("dropdownvalue");

or

dropdown.selectByIndex(0);

or

dropdown.selectByValue("value");

Method2:

List<WebElement> dd= new ArrayList<WebElement>();

dd = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("elementid")))
.findElements(By.tagName("option"));

for (WebElement option : dd) {

//System.out.println(option.getText());

if (outname.equalsIgnoreCase(option.getText())){

option.click();

break;

}

}

Method 1 is more preferrable in Selenium webdriver. However in PhantomJS I found first method is not working. So try method 2 in such cases.