Question

I am using watir-webdriver, I am trying to write the content displayed in a table below (RATE CODE SELECTED NOT AVAILABLE THIS LOCATION OR CAR 138DE) into a text file but I can’t get it to display the content. Any idea what i doing wrong ? Thanks in advance for your help.

errorMes = browser.select_list(:name => 'seamlessMessages').value
    f3=File.open( 'Error Log - Conf Res.txt', 'a') 
    f3.puts "Cancel Reservation - FAILED - Res ID: " +tasid+" - " + CSAsite + " - Message: " +errorMes
    f3.puts "\n"
    f3.close

code

<TD><B>Error/Informational&nbsp;Messages</B></TD>
                <TD><B>Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Messages</B></TD>
                <TD class="tableData"><span name="nbrOfMessages"/>1</span></TD>
                <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
                <TD height="1"></TD>
            </TR>
        </TABLE>
        <TABLE width="100%" class="displaySubsection" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <TR>
                <TD width="5" rowspan="3"></TD>
                <TD width="800"></TD>
                <TD width="5" rowspan="3"></TD>
            </TR>
            <TR>
                <TD>
                    <select name="seamlessMessages" size="2" readonly tabIndex="-1" class="readonly wide"><option value="0" selected>RATE CODE SELECTED NOT AVAILABLE THIS LOCATION OR CAR     138DE     </option></select>
                </TD>

Answer 1

I assume your problem is that you are getting “0” instead of “RATE CODE SELECTED NOT AVAILABLE THIS LOCATION OR CAR 138DE”.

When you do errorMes = browser.select_list(:name => 'seamlessMessages').value, it is returning the ‘value’ attribute of the selected option.

If you want the text, you need to do:

errorMes = browser.select_list(:name => 'seamlessMessages').selected_options.first.text