From: jwcooper <jwcooper@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T05:15:05+09:00
Subject: Mechanize SelectList Issue

Hi,

I have been pretty successful in using Mechanize for submitting forms
of all types.  The following select list has been giving me trouble to
no ends.  I am not able to get it to submit for any reason.  It
actually submits the form, but when I look at what I submitted, the
value is always blank.

Here is the select list:

<select style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;	font-size: 11px;"
name="Greetings" size="1">
					<option value="">Please Select
					<option>YO
					<option>HELLO
					<option>HOLA
					</select>

One thing to note is that the <option>'s don't get closed (</
option>).  Would this cause issues with Mechanize?  When I "pp" the
page it seems list the three options with the correct text (although
it looks like this 'YO\n\t\t\t\t\t'), and with 'null' values.

Here is what I have tried to no avail:

form.fields.name('Greetings').options[1].click
form.fields.name('Greetings').options[1].select
form.field('Greetings').options[1].select
form.field('Greetings').options[1].click
form.fields('Greetings').options[1].click

I can successfully grab the values out of the options by using:

myselectlist = form.fields.name('Greetings').options[1]
puts myselectlist.text

Any ideas on why I can't submit the form with the option I want to
select?  I can submit the form, but the 'select' never gets
processed.  No errors are thrown.

Thank you for any help you can provide!