Question

Similar to

selectContent = browser.select_list(:id, "lstStrike0_1").options.map(&:text)

is there a way to get a list or array of values (as in the value=”…” attribute for each select option in HTML)?

Directly or indirectly?
I looked up http://jarib.github.com/watir-webdriver/doc/Watir/Select.html but see no .values
analogous to the .options method.

EXAMPLE

<select id="lstExpMonth0_0"   name="lstExpMonth0_0">
<option value="">Select</option>
<option value="7/27/2012;0">JulWk4</option>
<option value="8/18/2012;1">Aug12</option>
<option value="9/22/2012;1">Sep12</option>

Thus

browser.select_list(:id, "lstExpMonth0_0").options.map(&:text)

gets me

=> ["JulWk4", "Aug12", "Sep12"]

How can I end up instead with the collection or array:

["7/27/2012;0", "8/18/2012;1", "9/22/2012;1"]

regardless of what might be selected?

Answer 1

Try:

browser.select_list(:id, "lstExpMonth0_0").options.map(&:value)
=> ["", "7/27/2012;0", "8/18/2012;1", "9/22/2012;1"]

All elements have the value() method, which will return the value of the value attribute.