Have found a solution.
I firstly need to fire_event("onmouseover") which selects the item then
fire_event("onclick").
Thank you all for your comments.
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:39:16 AM UTC+1, Marc Westwood wrote:
> Yes it works in terms of its clicks on the item in the select list because
> I can see the item in the list go yellow when it clicks but while is clicks
> it does not actually select the item.
>
> I can't see anything about a onclick mentioned.
>
> I've tried .click fire_event('onclick') mousedown mouseup onchange nothing
> seems to work.
>
> I have the same issue with other drop down lists in our application as
> well but the other drop down lists have different HTML they are <options
> tag in the html.
>
> Sorry I'm new to all this.
>
>
> On Friday, May 3, 2013 6:00:11 PM UTC+1, Super Kevy wrote:
>
>> Did this work?
>> browser.div(:class, "selectable_list").li(:id, "_item_2").click
>> Against this code sample
>>
>> <li><a id="_item_1" window="[object]" .....
>> Text = "DEF - 100 DEF"
>>
>> I think you confirmed to zeljko browser.link(:text,"DEF - 100
>> DEF").click worked
>>
>> Your sample code fragment is somewhat inadequate to answer your issue
>> I assume the html really looks like this:
>> <li><a id="_item1" ...other anchor attributes..... >DEF - 100 DEF</a></
>> li>
>>
>> Do you see any onchange, onclick events in the div selectable_list,
>> in the anchor, or list item?
>>
>>
>> On May 2, 6:56 am, Marc Westwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I have tried.
>> >
>> > .div(:class, "selectable_list").li(:id, "_item_2").click
>> > .div(:class, "selectable_list").select 'DEF - 100 DEF'
>> > .select_list(:id, "selectable_list").select 'DEF - 100 DEF'
>> >
>> > I would like to click on using the text.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:57:55 AM UTC+1, Željko Filipin wrote:
>> > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Marc Westwood
>> > > <[email protected]<javascript:>
>>
>> > > > wrote:
>> >
>> > >> I am having problems selecting items from a drop down list, I can
>> get the
>> > >> drop down list to open but am unable to select an item within the
>> list.
>> >
>> > > You are not dealing with select list (select tag), but with unordered
>> list
>> > > (ul tag). What do you want to click? What have you tried so far?
>> >
>> > > Željko
>> > > --
>> > >https://leanpub.com/watirbook
>>
>
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