Best way to accomplish this?

[joey o.]

Hi

I need a method to view all html drop down controls on any web page as opened showing their list and their selected value for printing in PDF.

I realize I need alot more thought to go into this considerring a webpage only usually sees the value selected but if anyone has any tips then please help?

Hopefully someone knows already but if not, can someone tell me if .Net is the way to go with doing this or at least setting up the page to have this functionality? Would another lang/method work better?

Thanks,
Joe E. O'tu

[mendhak]

Couldn't you just parse through the source of the page and look for all the <options> between <select> tags?

[joey o.]

Ya but I need screen shot of all the dropdowns to show their elements and selections at same time. Is it possible?

[mendhak]

All of them at a time, no.

Is it a one-time screenshot you need or do you need it every time?

[joey o.]

repeated process. Design time modification is acceptable before page load but all dropdowns must look exactly like a dropdown opened up with all choices and selections highlighted. Possibly I'll have to write a custom control but I can't believe that MS has never heard the need for this to document pages content visually for spec validation! Maybe there is a way to get at these controls via API or IE installed files? Please help...

[mendhak]

MS didn't invent the Internet, and I don't see why, on a web browser, anyone would want to open all the dropdowns. You'd probably have to do some image manipulation, such as opening each dropdown once and then 'combining' the images.