xpath for selecting <option> html tag?

Question

xpath for selecting html tag ?

<select>
<option value="first option"> 1 </option>
<option value="second option"> 2 </option>
<option value="third option"> 3 </option>
</select>

Would below suffice ?

html/body/form/select[@name='options' and @value='first option']

Weywadt

Answer 1

Several options here:

• /html/body/form/select/option
• /html/body/form/select/option[1]
• /html/body/form/select/option[position() = 1]
• /html/body/form/select/option[@value='first option']

All these lead to first option element

Depilate

what about for select with multiple options ? how can you select more than one option ? – Weywadt

The first option by Rubens (shortened: //select/option) selects in fact all option tags. Also from other select tags, if you have more than one. – Hachure

its right, andre-r; returning one or several elements depends on SelectSingleNode/SelectNodes method usage – Depilate

can one select the option by what is inside the tag? eg, not with the index, [1], but something like (unsuccessfully) //select/option[@label='1'] – Gault

you can do //select/option[. = '1'] – Depilate

Answer 2

Another option:

//select[@id='id']/option[text() = 'option text']

Matildamatilde

Is it possible to use trimmed values ? – Nims