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Get the innertext of an option from a select control in IE


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Hello,

I'm trying to develop a script that records the actions made in a web page and I have problems in getting the innertext of the selected option from a SELECT tag.

Example source code from the Preferences page of Google:

<select name=hl><option value=af>Afrikaans <option value=sq>Albanian <option value=am>Amharic.....

For this code I'am trying to retriev if I select "Afrikaans" from the list, a line like this:

Browser('title:=Google.....').Select('name:=hl').Set 'Afrikaans'

I can't retrieve the 'Afrikaans' text, but i can retrieve the value of the option(in this case 'af')

My source code looks like this:

Browser('title:=$oie.document.title').Select('name:=$oElement.name').Set $oElement.value

$oElement.innertext returns nothing

Do you have any ideeas of how can I get the required text?

Thanks

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I do hope you have used $oElement.innerText

Well my first post contained an error: $oElement.innerText didn't returned nothing. In fact it returned the list of all options, like this: AfrikaansAlbanianAmharicArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBelarusianBengaliBihariBork, bork, bork!BosnianBretonBulgarianCambodianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CorsicanCroatianCzechDanishDutchElmer FuddEnglishEsperantoEstonianFaroeseFilipinoFinnishFrenchFrisianGalicianGeorgianGermanGreekGuaraniGuj

arati.....

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Can you use more words to explain what you are trying to do and show some example code how you are trying to accomplish it?

Dale

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Can you use more words to explain what you are trying to do and show some example code how you are trying to accomplish it?

Dale

My script starts from another one, from this forum(I don't remember who post it, or the title of the post)..

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You need the text of the selected option: $oElement.options($oElement.selectedIndex).text

Dale

Edit: Note, if the select object allow multiple selections, this method will only return the first item. To get multiple items you must iterate through the options collection items and check the "selected" property of each.

P.S. I spent about 15 minutes downloading and pouring through your code to to figure out it's flow and about 30 seconds providing the answer. I truely would have appreciated a more focused descriiption and code snippet.

Edited by DaleHohm

Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl

MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model

Automate input type=file (Related)

Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded  Better Better?

IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds

SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y

Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead?

Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble

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