Selenium: Get DropDown Options

How to get the options of a dropdown list?

Here are the ways to get it:
Option 1:
- There is a built in function in selenium getselectoptions() which can be called to get the list of options available for the select tag. For ex:

string[] dropDownItems = selenium.GetSelectOptions("//select[@id='someid']");

Option 2:
- If you want to get the text of the dropdown items which are in this format

Option One
Option Two

then you can get the text for the options using:

var iCount = (int) selenium.GetXpathCount("//select[@id='someid']/option");
var optionsList = new List();
for (int i = 1; i <= iCount; i++)
{
String option = selenium.GetText("//select[@id='someid']/option[" + i + "]");
optionsList.Add(option);
}

Option 3:
To get the id for the select options. We need the following code:

var iCount = (int) selenium.GetXpathCount("//select[@id='someid']/option");
var optionsList = new List();
for (int i = 1; i <= iCount; i++)
{
String option = selenium.GetText("//select[@id='someid']/option[" + i + "]");
optionsList.Add(option);
}