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How to get the selected values from CSS multi select box created using <div> tag

I was searching for a nice CSS multi select drop-down list form control on the web and found a free CSS multi select form control at: FreeFrontend.com Selectionator
I have put this CSS multi select drop-down list on my ASP.NET webform:
<div class="container">
<div id="select" ng-model=""></div>
</div>
and tried to get the items selected by the users by using the C# (code behind) code:
string UserSelectedValues = Request.Form["select"];
But I could never get the selected values using Request.Form["select"]
Probably because the code for this multi-select box is in the form
<div id="select" ng-model=""></div>
and not in the form
<asp:DropDownList ID="select" runat="server">
How can I get the multiple selected values on this div based CSS selectbox control in the C# (code behind)?

c# selenium finding element using xpath

I am trying to find an element which is a div inside a div...
here is example of the code:
<div class="col-md-4">
<div style="display: none;" id="multiplier-win" class="label label-success multiplier">2X</div>
<div style="display: block;" id="multiplier-lose" class="label label-danger multiplier">0X</div>
<div style="display: none;" id="multiplier-tie" class="label label-warning multiplier">1X</div>
</div>
I want to find the class="label label-success multiplier" and check if her style="display:none".
How do I write this in c#?
Please help me
thank you!

In your case, the elements have a unique ID. So instead of finding them by class name (which could lead to multiple/inaccurate results), you should use By.Id(...). It is more easy to write by hand than xpath, too.
Let's say your IWebDriver instance is called driver. The code looks like this:
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("multiplier-win"));
String style = element.GetAttribute("style");
...
I don't want to offend you, but you should probably use google before you post here. This is very basic code you will find in multiple tutorials about selenium.
Edit: In case you are looking for multiple elements of a class:
ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> elements = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("..."));
foreach (IWebElement el in elements)
{
...
}

To Find the element:
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[#class='label label-success multiplier']"));
To check if an element is displayed, this returns a bool (true if displayed, false if not displayed). If you go with philn's element list code, you can throw this line into his foreach statement and it will tell you which ones are displayed.
el.Displayed;

Selenium select not working on some objects

I am having trouble with setting a Select object through Selenium. This Select object has some JavaScript associated with it that populates it's 'options' when the page is loaded. I believe this is causing it to behave differently. Normally I can set a Select object with the following:
SelectElement sel = new SelectElement(ele);
sel.SelectByText(value);
With this specific object, the same code will execute successfully (no exceptions thrown), however the value does not get set. Note that I put sleeps and re-trys in and I am confident the Select object is fully loaded before the code is executed (otherwise an exception would occur).
The two Select objects giving me this trouble also appear different from standard html Select objects which reinforces my belief that they are not standard Selects. The first two drop downs in this image are the troublesome ones, while the rest work as expected:
Unfortunately this is a private page that I cannot give you access to, but hopefully this HTML snippet is enough:
<h3>Details of your primary qualification, examination, or assessment</h3>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.ui.position.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.ui.selectmenu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
j$(document).ready(function () {
j$(".field [id$='_drpInstitution']").selectmenu();
j$(".field [id$='_drpName']").selectmenu();
j$(".field [id$='_drpInstitution']").change(function () {
__doPostBack('content_0$ucCourse$drpInstitution', '');
});
j$(".field [id$='_drpName']").change(function () {
__doPostBack('content_0$ucCourse$drpName', '');
});
});
</script>
<div class="field">
<label for="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution" id="content_0_ucCourse_lblInstitution">Name of Australian institution (university/college/examining body):<em class="required">*</em></label>
<select name="content_0$ucCourse$drpInstitution" id="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution" class="field-l Institution">
<option value="-1">- Select -</option>
<option selected="selected" value="Australian Catholic University">Australian Catholic University</option>
<option value="Avondale College of Higher Education">Avondale College of Higher Education</option>
<option value="Central Queensland University">Central Queensland University</option>
<option value="Charles Darwin University">Charles Darwin University</option>
<option value="Other">- Other -</option>
</select>
<em class="hint">If your institution does not appear in the list, please select 'Other' and enter your institution in the text box that appears.</em>
<span id="content_0_ucCourse_vldInstitution" style="display:none;"></span>
</div>
When I inspect the Dropdown box, instead of getting the Select object I get the following Span:
<span>
<a class="ui-selectmenu ui-widget ui-state-default ui-selectmenu-dropdown ui-state-active ui-corner-top" id="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-button" role="button" href="#nogo" tabindex="0" aria-haspopup="true" aria-owns="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-menu" style="width: 460px;" aria-disabled="false">
<span class="ui-selectmenu-status">Australian Catholic University</span>
<span class="ui-selectmenu-icon ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-s"></span>
</a>
</span>
When I inspect the resulting drop down list, I get a UL located in the footer:
<div class="ui-selectmenu-menu" style="z-index: 2; top: 786px; left: 741px;">
<ul class="ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-selectmenu-menu-dropdown ui-corner-bottom" aria-hidden="true" role="listbox" aria-labelledby="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-button" id="content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-menu" style="width: 460px; height: 189px;" aria-disabled="false" tabindex="0" aria-activedescendant="ui-selectmenu-item-562">
<li role="presentation" class="">- Select -</li>
<li role="presentation" class="ui-selectmenu-item-selected">Australian Catholic University</li>
<li role="presentation" class="">Avondale College of Higher Education</li>
<li role="presentation">University of Wollongong</li>
<li role="presentation">Victoria University</li>
<li role="presentation" class="ui-corner-bottom">- Other -</li>
</ul>
</div>
None of this appears in the Page Source, so it is all generated on the fly. I am currently working around the Select issue by clicking the hyperlink object id=content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-button and then clicking the hyperlink object text=Australian Catholic University
Any better workarounds would be appreciated.

As you've already discovered, the dropdown is not represented by select->option in this case.
Handle it as is - find the a element by Id (which would be your "select"), click it to open up the dropdown; then, find the a element with text "Australian Catholic University" (which would be your "option") by link text:
IWebElement select = driver.FindElement(By.Id("content_0_ucCourse_drpInstitution-button"));
select.Click();
IWebElement option = select.FindElement(By.LinkText("Australian Catholic University"));
option.Click();
We can also think about the problem differently - if they've hidden the select element from us - we'll just make it visible. Cannot guarantee it would work since I cannot reproduce the problem:
((IJavaScriptExecutor)Driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].hidden = false; arguments[0].style.visibility='visible';", element);
where element is pointing to your select tag.
Then, after making the element visible try using SelectByText():
element.SelectByText("Australian Catholic University");

MVC how to auto select check boxes whos Label contains a word that user specifies

So I've got this popup in my site with a list of checkboxes for filtering purposes. The List can be anywhere from a couple items to a hundred items. Now say the user wants to only select check boxes with the word "create" in it's label. Going through a hundred check boxes looking for creates is unruly and no ones going to want to do it. What I'm thinking is implementing a text box input at the bottom of the popup where the user can input a word, hit select and in the list of checkboxes, only the items that contain that word will be checked.
The first idea that came to mind to do this is use jquery have the button relate to a controller function which will reassess the view model based on that users string. But I'm not if that the best solution. Is there a way to do this in just the view?

Try something like this:
Your HTML:
<div class="box">
<input type="checkbox" name="check">
<label>Create</label>
</div>
<div class="box">
<input type="checkbox" name="check">
<label>Other value</label>
</div>
<div class="box">
<input type="checkbox" name="check">
<label>Create user</label>
</div>
Your JQuery code:
$(function(){
$('.box').each(function(){
var box = $(this);
if ($('label', box).html().toLowerCase().indexOf("create") > 0) {
$('input[type=checkbox]', box).attr('checked', 'checked');
}
else $('input[type=checkbox]', box).removeAttr('checked');
});
});
This is a better solution suggested by #AnoopJoshi
$("label:contains('Create')").closest(".box").find("input[type=checkbox]").prop(‌​"checked", true);
I hope this help!

How to find div Element without an id attribute with Selenium Webdriver

I'm using C# and Selenium Webdriver and I'm trying to find a div Element in my html code which looks like this:
<div class="x-grid-cell-inner" style="text-align: left;" unselectable="on">
phys_tag_desc
</div>
I cant find a method to search for the value of the div Element with Selenium Webdriver. I already searched this site and checked the Selenium Webdriver Documentation, but couldn't find anything.

Well if text value is unique, then solution is simple. Try the xpath below:
//div[text()='phys_tag_desc']
If the text is not exact match. Try following:
//div[contains(text(),'phys_tag_desc')]

I have two ways.
Way 2 is more complex but more effective.
Way 1;
You can loop in all divs and look for some equals
Example:
foreach(HtmlElement o in webbrowser.Document.GetElementByTagName("div"))
{
HtmlElement yourElement;
if(o.GetAttribute("class")=="x-grid-cell-inner"&&o.GetAttribute("style")=="text-align: left;")
{
yourElement=o;
break;
}
DoSomethingWith(yourElememt);
}
The other way is follow elements path;
You can find the closer element that has a ID
Example:
<div id="element">
<div>content..</div>
<div>
<div class="x-grid-cell-inner" style="text-align: left;" unselectable="on">
phys_tag_desc
</div>
</div>
</div>
The closest element that have id on this example is
<div id="element">
your element's parent is 2. children of id="element" div
You can get it and follow path like this
yourElement = webbrowser.Document.GetElementById("element").Children[1].Children[0];

In other situation you can use the XPATH Boolean operators.
Try the xpath below:
By.XPath("//div[contains(#class,'*x-grid-cell-inner*') and contains(#unselectable, '*on*') and contains(text(),'*phys_tag_desc*')]")
Bye