Question

Ho do I select the first item in a SelectList in WatiN? Below you can see how I have my selectlist declared and below that is how I’m attempting to call the select. I don’t see any options for index. Will I need to get a string collection of selected items and select by the [1] string or is there a simpler way to do this?

Page Class:

[FindBy(Id = "VariationRelationshipId")]
public SelectList VariationRelationship { get; set; }

Test Class:

//need to select 1st item in list
Browser.Page<MyPage>().VariationRelationship........

Answer 1

You need to be calling against an instance of a browser, not the Watin.Core.Browser class

Test code.

IE myBrowser = new IE(true);
myBrowser.GoTo("http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlselect.php");           
myBrowser.Page<DropDownSample>().States.WaitUntilExists();
myBrowser.Page<DropDownSample>().States.Options[2].Select();  //<-- not Browser.Page....

Class

public class DropDownSample : Page
    {
        [FindBy(Name = "selectionField")]
        public SelectList States { get; set; }
    }

Above checked on Watin2.1, IE9, Win7 – runs like a champ. Selects “conneticut” in the first select list on the page.