WebBrowserEx: Setting value of form dropdown/option boxes?

[richt]

Hi guys,

Guess this one is aimed at Cableguy mainly but one of you may be able to help.

I'm using the WebBrowserEx library to fill out a web form and although I can easily select and fill text fields I can't find a way to select an option from a dropdown field.

Unfortunately I don't have control over the web form so I can't just recode the HTML.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

 

[warwound]

Take a look at this javascript function:

function setOption($select, $value){
   //   this function accepts 2 parameters
   //   $select is a HTML select element
   //   $value is an option value (string) within the select element to find and select if it exists otherwise no change is made to the select element's options
   //    the function will return true if $value is found in $select and selected otherwise it'll return false
   var $options=$select.options, $i=$options.length;
   while($i--){
      if($options[$i].value===$value){
         $options[$i].selected=true;
         return true;
      }
   }
   return false;
}

You'll need to execute some javascript to get the select element and then call this function to set the desired value.

You can get all select elements with this javascript:

var selects=document.getElementsByTagName('select');

selects is an object that can be treated as an array.

A lot depends on how you can get the desired select element from the web page - can you post the form's HTML?

Martin.

 

[richt]

Hi Warwound,

Thanks for posting. I think you're answer is aimed at the Android platform though, I'm coding in B4PPC on the windows desktop.

I've done some more digging and I think setting form select options via Cableguy's library is beyond the scope of it's current code. I might have to break out the ole' SharpDevelop.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[warwound]

LOL that's why i didn't recognise the reference to WebBrowserEx library!!

Martin.

 

[Cableguy]

Sorry for the late reply...

I intended to add some more features to the DLL, but I had some stuff happening in my life that strayed me away from the Forum, and computers overall...
Still, if you have the name of the dropdown element/control, you can use the getdocument method, fetch the element, add the necessary html code and re-feed it to the WebBrowserEx.

I konw this is possible because I managed to auto-Post a form by adding html to the original page, so any other html elemente can be managed/changed if you know html.

 

[richt]

Thanks Cableguy, I'll give that a go!