xpath: how to select nth option? - xpath

using xpath, how do you select the n-th option ?
<select>
<option></option>
<option></option>
</select>
/html/body/select/option[?]

what you have is correct:
for the 2nd option, use:
/html/body/select/option[2]
or
/html/body/select/option[position()=2]
See http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#location-paths
Edit
Note that the above assumes you have a structure like:
<html>
<body>
<select>
<option></option>
<option></option>
</select>
</body>
</html>
If your select is inside of a parent other than body, then you either want to use something like:
/html/body/div[#class='header']/select/option[2]
or
//select/option[2]
Of course, since your select probably has a name attribute, you could use that, e.g.
//select[#name='myselect']/option[2]

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Thymeaf Calculated URL Value

I need to get a value from the select component of my page and set its value as a parameter in the href.
<td class="body-item mbr-fonts-style display-7"><a th:href="#{/export(exportEntity='Person',semester='javascript:document.getElementById(\'semester\').value')}">Download</a></td>
Semeter variable has the value at my server side:
semester = javascript:document.getElementById('semester').value
and not the dropdown value.
Unfortunately, this code is not picking the value from the select component. Any guess what I have done wrong here.
Thymeleaf runs on the server, while JavaScript runs on the browser. You can't mix it like that.
It's difficult to say what to do, because your question is lacking context, specifically: What is the element with the id semester?
If it's a select element (or another form element), then it would be possible to use neither Thymeleaf nor JavaScript, but a simple form:
<form method="get" action="/export">
<input type="hidden" name="exportEntity" value="Person">
<select name="semester">
<option value="A">Semester A</option>
<option value="B">Semester B</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Download">
</form>
Clicking on the button will have the browser generate an URL such as /export?exportEntity=Person&semester=A and go to it.

Capybara Datalist Select not visible

I have the following HTML snippet:
<input type="text" id="manufacturer" list="manufacturers" placeholder="Search by manufacturer name or supplier code" class="form-control form-control-2-3" value="" name="manufacturer">
<datalist id="manufacturers">
<select>
<div>
<option value="Jaguar">AA</option>
<div></div>
</div>
<div>
<option value="Audi">AB</option>
<div></div>
</div>
<div>
<option value="Mercedes">AC</option>
<div></div>
</div>
</select>
</datalist>
It's a dropdown menu and I want to select one of the options. No matter what I try with any find command or select function. I always get the same error:
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError: element not visible: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to scope to those options and select one?
Thanks.
What you're trying to do isn't currently possible because it's not actually a dropdown select element. The <datalist> option elements are never actually visible on the page because the standard states "In the rendering, the datalist element represents nothing and it, along with its children, should be hidden." - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/form-elements.html#the-datalist-element . Instead any <option> elements in the datalist are just used as autofill suggestions for the input element (but don't actually restrict the value a user can input in any way). Because of this and since the datalist user can just type anything they want into the input element you can set the input value like any other text input.
fill_in("manufacturer", with: 'Jaguar')

Watir question regarding selecting a hidden dropdown

I have two dropdowns, the second dropdown does not show until a choice is made from the first one. Using watir, i can select the first dropdown, and when i watch it, the second one becomes active, but it cannot select it. i just tried the regular select_list using name and id. Here is the code for the second drop down.
<td>
<input type="hidden" value="1" name="list" id="list">
<script type="text/JavaScript" language="JavaScript"></script>
<select>
<option value="">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
</select>
</td>
I've also notice the value for the hidden field change as i select different options.
Thanks for any help
The way that I usually access drop down lists is by using this string:
#browser.select_list(:name, "list").set("3")
Does this help?
I usually select hidden dropdowns this way
ie.hidden(:name=>"list").value='2'
Try this:
browserObj = Watir::Browser.new
browserObj.goto('you html in browser')
//browserObj.hidden(:id,"list").value
browserObj.select_list(:name, "list").select_value('2')

smarty select option

how to add new option and the value is none on smarty?
<select>
{foreach from=$miles item=row1}
{html_options values=$row1.milestone_id output=$row1.title}
{/foreach}
</select>
I'll do you one better. If you set up your data array differently, you don't need the foreach:
<select>
<option value='null'>none</option>
{html_options values=$miles.milestone_id output=$miles.title}
</select>
{html_options} creates a group of <option> tags (see docs). Pass 2 arrays of value and output or just one associative array of name value pairs and it makes the whole lot of option tags. It'll also preselect the default value if you specify it.
It's just plain HTML, you don't need any Smarty formatting:
<select>
<option value='null'>none</option>
{foreach from=$miles item=row1}
{html_options values=$row1.milestone_id output=$row1.title}
{/foreach}
</select>
i think i just found.
<select name="1">
<option value='0'>-- none --</option>
{foreach from=$miles item=row1}
{html_options values=$row1.milestone_id output=$row1.title}
{/foreach}
</select>

dropdown menu question, may be simple may not be

I have a webpage containing input tags like the one below eg.
<input value='Cut' name='container_cut_button' type='submit/>
<input value='Copy' name='container_copy_button' type='submit/>
I want to put these into a dropdown, I was hoping it would be something simple like
<select onchange='submit()'>
<option name='container_cut_button'>Cut</option>
<option name='container_copy_button'>Copy</option>
</select>
but no such luck,
Anyone have any ideas about how this could be done?
Thanks in advance
Use the "value" attribute of the options rather than their name.
<select name="action">
<option value="cut_item">Cut</option>
<option value="save_item">Save</option>
</select>
On the server, you'll check the value of the variable "action." It will be either "cut_item" or "save_item".
I called a javascript function in the select tag ie. onchange="exec(value)", the function gets the select id and inserts the proper name attribute based on it value.
function exec(val){
if(val=='cut'){
document.getElementById("action").setAttribute("name", "cut")
}
}
This worked out ok

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