{"id":5818,"date":"2022-08-30T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-select-an-specific-item-on-a-drop-down-list-on-aspx-site\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:15:29","slug":"solved-how-to-select-an-specific-item-on-a-drop-down-list-on-aspx-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-select-an-specific-item-on-a-drop-down-list-on-aspx-site\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to select an specific item on a drop down list on ASPX site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-48101081\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"48101081\" data-parentid=\"47910269\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>This particular web page isn&#8217;t using <code>&lt;select&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;option&gt;<\/code>.  That suggests to me that they are using some custom JavaScript to simulate a drop-down list using the illustrated <code>&lt;div&gt;<\/code> and <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code> elements.  In addition, they are using <code>onselect<\/code> rather than <code>onclick<\/code> to trigger event handlers.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t replicate your test case.  However, I did make a test case of my own, and I think it works.  In short, replace <code>post.Click<\/code> with <code>post.onselect<\/code>.  The problem with your code was that it was trying to trigger an <code>onclick<\/code> handler that didn&#8217;t exist on the target <code>&lt;span&gt;<\/code>!<\/p>\n<h3>HTML<\/h3>\n<pre><code>&lt;html&gt;\n    &lt;head&gt;\n    &lt;script type=\"text\/javascript\"&gt;\n    function clk() { alert('Dental clicked'); }     \/\/ *** So I could see if Click had an effect\n    function sel() { alert('Dental selected'); }    \/\/ *** Simulate the given testcase\n    &lt;\/script&gt;\n    &lt;\/head&gt;\n&lt;body&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"cboGroupGrid\"&gt;\n        &lt;span class=\"cboItem\" option=\"0\"&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;\n        &lt;span class=\"cboItem\" option=\"1\" onselect=\"sel();\" onclick=\"clk();\"&gt;Dental&lt;\/span&gt;\n        &lt;span class=\"cboItem\" option=\"2\"&gt;Health&lt;\/span&gt;\n        &lt;span class=\"cboItem\" option=\"3\"&gt;Unknown Product&lt;\/span&gt;\n    &lt;\/div&gt;\n&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>VBA<\/h3>\n<p>In the code below, <code>'''<\/code> are things I commented out because I didn&#8217;t have them and they weren&#8217;t essential to the task as I understand it.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang-vb prettyprint-override\"><code>Public Sub IE_Search_and_Extract()\n\n    Dim URL As String\n    Dim IE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer\n    Dim HTMLdoc As HTMLDocument\n    Dim response As String\n    '''response = MsgBox(\"Login \", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, \"login\")\n    '''If response = vbYes Then\n    '''    URL = \" \"\n    '''Else\n    '''End If\n    URL = \"prashant.htm\"     ' ** Local testcase\n\n    '''Set IE = Get_IE_Window(URL)  ' ** I don't have the code for this function\n    '''If IE Is Nothing Then\n        Set IE = New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer\n    '''End If\n\n    With IE\n        '''SetForegroundWindow .Hwnd    ' ** I don't have this function\n        .navigate URL\n        .Visible = True\n        While .Busy Or .readyState &lt;&gt; READYSTATE_COMPLETE\n            DoEvents\n        Wend\n\n        '.document.getElementById(\"btnLogin\").Click\n\n'        While .Busy Or .readyState &lt;&gt; READYSTATE_COMPLETE\n'            DoEvents\n'        Wend\n        'Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue(\"0:00:5\"))\n        Set HTMLdoc = .document\n    End With\n\n    Dim post As Object, elem As Object\n    For Each post In HTMLdoc.getElementsByClassName(\"cboItem\")\n        If InStr(post.innerText, \"Dental\") &gt; 0 Then     ' ** Use a block If, not inline.\n            'post.Click    ' ** This does work, and triggers clk()\n            post.onselect  ' ** This triggers sel()\n            Exit For\n        End If\n    Next post\nEnd Sub\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Style suggestion: If you have more than one thing in a <code>Then<\/code> or <code>Else<\/code> block, always use the multiline form.  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