Select Item of webbrowser dropdown list

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Hello,

I'm working on a webpage automation project. And I am very new in this. I want to use Webbrowser control to select an item in the dropdownlist. Now,how do I programmetically select an item from the HTML snippet below. I would like to select,say for example,"2009" from this HTML code :

HTML

<select name = "yr">
<option value= "">Year</option>
<option>2009</option>
<option>2010</option>
<option>2011</option>
<option>2012</option>
</select>

error in my code:

C#

dynamic TheItem = (from X in webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("select").Cast<HtmlElement>()where X.GetAttribute("name") == "starting_date" X.GetElementsByTagName("option").FirstOrDefault;
if (TheItem != null)
{
    dynamic Item = (from X in TheItem.Cast <HtmlElement>() where X.InnerText == "18").FirstOrDefault;
    if (Item != null)
    {
        Item.SetAttribute("Selected", Convert.ToString(true));
    }
}

error:
A query body must end with a select clause or a group clause

Posted 15-Aug-13 3:22am

samadblaj

Updated 15-Aug-13 6:30am

Richard C Bishop

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idenizeni · Answer 1 · 2013-08-15T09:16:00

Your LINQ query isn't structured correctly. Try this...

C#

var optionItems = (from X in webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("select").Cast<HtmlElement>()
where X.GetAttribute("name") == "starting_date" select X.GetElementsByTagName("option"));

if (optionItems != null) 
{
    dynamic optionToSelect = (from X in optionItems.Cast<HtmlElement>() where X.InnerText == "18" select X).FirstOrDefault();

    if (optionToSelect != null) 
    {
        optionToSelect.SetAttribute("Selected", Convert.ToString(true));
    }
}