Question

I’m trying to get the select list values using xpath because by id is giving me false in the exists function, but is not working

puts   $browser.select_list(:xpath,"//*[@id='numType']").exists?

number = $browser.select_list(:xpath,"//*[@id='numType']").options.map(&:text)

 number_list = Array.new
 number.each do |number_text|
      number_list << "#{number_text}"
 end

HTML code:

<div id="forwardRs">
<div class="forwardR">
<div id="forwardT" class="rc1">
  <select id="forward_types" name="Foward Types" tabindex="5" onchange="changeForwardTypes(this);">
    <option value="unconditional">unconditional</option>
    <option value="busy">busy</option>
    <option value="reply">reply</option>
    <option value="reachable">reachable</option>
    <option value="other">other</option>
  </select>
</div>
<div id="numtype" class="rc1" style="">
  <select id="numType" onchange="changeNumType(this);" name="numbers" tabindex="5">
    <option value="ex">Ex</option>
    <option value="in">In</option>
  </select>
</div>
<div id="rule" class="rc1" style="">
  <input id="tel" type="text" value="" size="20" name="tel" tabindex="2" onchange="changeNumberRule(this);">
</div>
<div id="removeForwardRule" class="rc3">
  <a onclick="removeForwardRule(this);">
   <img src="../../images/delete.png">
  </a>

How can i do this?

Tanks

Answer 1

Disregard what I originally wrote here, as I have been completely unsuccessful in getting the .options method to return any of the options in a select list, whereas the .selected_options method returns the selected options just fine.

I’ve been able to successfully get the options from your select list by doing the following:

select_list_options = $ff.elements_by_xpath("//select[@id='numType']/option")

which gives you an array of the options in the select list.

To get the text out of those elements I did

select_list_options_text = Array.new
select_list_options.each do |option|
  select_list_options_text << option.text
end

Not a very pretty answer but hey.

I have literally no idea why .options does not work for me, but you may be suffering the same problem.