Xpath: how to choose the nth option?

Question

using xpath, how do you choose the nth option?

<select>
<option></option>
<option></option>
</select>

/ html / body / select the option / [?]

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wghwh Nov 02 '09 at 5:19

1 answer

Jonathan fingland · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-02T05:23:21+0000

what you have right:

for the second option use:

/html/body/select/option[2]

or

/html/body/select/option[position()=2]

Edit

Note that the above assumes that you have a structure such as:

 <html>
  <body>
   <select>
    <option></option>
    <option></option>
   </select>
  </body>
 </html>

If your choice is inside a parent other than the body, then you either want to use something like:

/html/body/div[@class='header']/select/option[2]

or

//select/option[2]

Of course, since your choice probably has a name attribute, you can use it, for example.

//select[@name='myselect']/option[2]