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aceishigh
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14 years ago

Unable to locate element on IE using EvaluateXPath

Hi All, I'm trying to select an option from a drop-down menu by using the value attribute and not the visible text. What I'm doing is grapping the @title attribute and passing it to the ClickItem f...
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HKosova
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14 years ago
Hi Jack,



When you query a web element's attribute using XPath, it returns the attribute object (IHTMLDOMAttribute for IE, Attr for Firefox and so on) rather than the attribute value.



To access the attribute value given the attribute object, you can use its value property:

/@title")

' Convert to a string

strMenuItem = CStr(MenuItem(0).value)


Or you can query the OPTION element instead and then access its title attribute directly:

")

' Convert to a string

strMenuItem = CStr(MenuItem(0).title)