HTML Drop Down help (Solved)

[zzghost]

Hello,

I have been reading every tutorial and help document I can find trying to figure out how to capture from a website the content of a dropdown in order to populate it into a GUI with checkboxes to run some code based off of the selections...

Quote

<select name="ContentPlaceHolder1$selectCtr" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_selectCtr" class="form-group">
 <option selected="selected" value="">select ...</option>
 <option value="8494">Option1(8494)</option>
 <option value="106209">Option2(106209)</option>
</select>

I would like a script to read the options from this form-group and populate a gui. I have all the code written except this part, as of now I have to manually pull this from the site and dump into my code but it changes from time to time so I would like my code to be more flexible...

 

Hope this makes sense?

Edited January 23, 2019 by zzghost

[Danp2]

Have you tried using _IEGetObjByID to get a reference to the select element and then passing this object as the first parameter of _IETagNameGetCollection to get a collection of the option elements?

[zzghost]

Please help, I think this is what you meant just trying to teach myself....

 

#include <IE.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

Local $oIE = _IE_Example("form")
Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "selectExample")
Local $oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, $oForm)
Local $sTxt = ""
For $oInput In $oInputs
    $sTxt &= $oInput.???? & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Test", $sTxt)

_IEQuit($oIE)

 

[Danp2]

You've got a few things wrong there. But here's a working example of what I was intending --

#include <IE.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

Local $oIE = _IE_Example("form")
Local $oElement = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "selectExample")
Local $oOptions = _IETagNameGetCollection($oElement, 'option')
Local $sTxt = ""
For $oOption In $oOptions
    $sTxt &= $oOption.value & @TAB & $oOption.innerText & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Test", $sTxt)

_IEQuit($oIE)

 

[jdelaney]

_IEFormElementOptionSelect

 

[Danp2]

That was my initial thought as well, but I don't think you can get the data the OP needs using this function.

[jdelaney]

oops, didn't read the part where they just wanted to get the values.  cheers.

[zzghost]

OMG so simple. Well thank you all!!