How to select a Option in a Select tag element (Dropdown) : How To …

[vinoappu]

Can anyone please help me out - How to select a Option in a Select tag element (Dropdown) ??

[Ciege]

First find the combobox

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DOMCombo = webDocumentName.FindSingle(".//select[@Id='" + ComboName + "']");

Next you *can* check if the option exists before trying to click it (this is optional).

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foreach (OptionTag option in DOMCombo.Find(".//option"))
{
if (option.InnerText == ComboItem)
{
ComboItemFound = true;
break;
}
}

Finally click the option.

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DOMCombo.EnsureVisible();
DOMCombo.Focus();
DOMCombo.Click(Location.CenterRight, 1000);
ListItem item = "/container[@caption='selectbox']/listitem[@text='" + ComboItem + "']";
item.Click(Location.Center, 1000);

[sdaly]

Hi Ceige, your repsonse helped me, thank you! I was previously trying to find and click the optiontag and going nuts wondering why it wasn't working! I now have the below which works a treat!

Public Sub dropDown(dropDownPath As String, itemText As String)
'find and click on dropdown as per specified path
Dim typeSelect As Ranorex.SelectTag = dropDownPath
typeSelect.EnsureVisible
typeSelect.Click(location.CenterRight)
Dim item as Ranorex.ListItem = "/container[@caption='selectbox']/list/listitem[@accessiblename='" & itemText & "']"
item.Click(location.Center)
End Sub

Thanks
Scott

[Ciege]

Great, glad I could be of some help!

[hobli]

Hi,

I tried this solution, and it seems only work with IE. When I try with FireFox (3.6.3), Ranorex 2.3.1 can only recognise "container[@caption='dropdown']" (using Ranorex Spy), all the list items inside this container can not be found. I have tried with code to search all child elements under this container in real-time, but still fails to find any child elements.

Is there any way Ranorex can find the relevant item in the dropdown list with FireFox?

thanks a lot

[Support Team]

Hi,

Is there any way Ranorex can find the relevant item in the dropdown list with FireFox?

I think the drop down items don't exist at the moment you try to get them.
So please try to open the drop down before you call your method to get all list items. So it's guaranteed that all items exists at runtime.

Is the drop down an element of a web page or you try to automate a Firefox application drop down?

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Support Team

[hobli]

Hi,

I think the dropdown list is available before I do the option/item selection with the code, the same code works with IE.

To ensure the drop down list is available, I use the "ctrl+win" short-cut key of Ranorex Spy to retrieve the item list.

If there's a solution with FireFox, can you pls post a piece of code to give me a hint?

thanks a lot

[Support Team]

Hi,

I tried following code in both browsers and it work as expected

Ranorex.SelectTag selectTag = Host.Local.FindSingle("/dom[@page='test.html']/body/select");            	
foreach(Ranorex.OptionTag optTag in selectTag.Find(".//option"))
{
     Console.WriteLine(optTag.InnerText);
}

Ranorex 2.3.1 can only recognise "container[@caption='dropdown']" (using Ranorex Spy)

You are using the DOM object to get the elements of the web page or you using the MSAA drop down of the Form of Firefox?

//DOM dorp down
"/dom[@page='test.html' and @path='C:/Users/pgrad/Desktop/test.html' and @browsername='Mozilla']/body/select"
//Form drop down
"/form[@processname='firefox']/element/container[1]/element[1]/container/combobox[@accessiblevalue='Test 1']"

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Support Team

[hobli]

Hi, Ranorex support team,

Think there's mis-communication.
What I am trying to do is as following:

1. find the location of the "selectTag"/combobox in the browser (FF)
2. do a mouse click on the combobox
3. search the "drop-down window", RxPath = "/container[@caption='dropdown']" (path found using ranorexSpy)
assumption: as illustrate in this post earlier, similar path is expected to locate dropdown window in FF as in IE
4. try to find the relevant option item/list item insider the container
Result: "container" found, but there are 0 elements under "containter".
5. do a mouse click over the option item in the dropdown window

If I repeat the same step (use rxpath of container: "/container[@caption='selectbox']") for IE, it works.

I am using DOM to allocate the location of the combobox first, then use MSAA to locate the container and its option item.
Btw, I can use this rxpath to locate comboBox in FF, however:
"/form[@processname='firefox']/element/container[1]/element[1]/container/combobox[@accessiblevalue='Test 1']"

thanks

[Support Team]

Hi,

Btw, I can use this rxpath to locate comboBox in FF, however:
"/form[@processname='firefox']/element/container[1]/element[1]/container/combobox[@accessiblevalue='Test 1']"

Sorry but in Firefox you don't get the items of a combo box, because Firefox MSAA implementation is not designed as has been imagined. Therefore, it is not currently possible to implement this. Then only way is to use the DOM "select and option" feature.

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Support Team

[mrusso]

I recently asked about a similar problem and have a suggestion based on code that worked for me.

simple example:

OptionTag option = "//rxpath/to/option";
option.Selected = true;

example of an extension method adding this capability to all SelectTag elements:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public static void SelectOption(this SelectTag selectBox, string itemName)
{
	Report.Info("Selecting item '"+itemName+"' in "+selectBox);
	
	// ignore case regex
	string itemRegex = "^(?i)" + Regex.Escape(itemName) + "$";

	selectBox.EnsureVisible();
			
	OptionTag option = selectBox.FindSingle<OptionTag>("option[@InnerText~'"+itemRegex+"']");
	option.Selected = true;
}