In Selenium IDE how can you select an option by index in a dropdown menu?

you can select it by using the XPath //select/option[index].

Remember that XPath is a 1 based index by standard.

Edit After Question was updated

You can use a number of different ways to select an option from within a select. Below has been copied from the Selenium IDE on how to create option locators. To select the first item it would be index=0

select(selectLocator, optionLocator) Arguments:

    * selectLocator - an element locator identifying a drop-down menu    * optionLocator - an option locator (a label by default)Select an option from a drop-down using an option locator.Option locators provide different ways of specifying options of an HTML

Select element (e.g. for selecting a specific option, or for asserting that the selected option satisfies a specification). There are several forms of Select Option Locator.

    * label=labelPattern: matches options based on their labels, i.e. the visible text. (This is the default.)          o label=regexp:^[Oo]ther    * value=valuePattern: matches options based on their values.          o value=other    * id=id: matches options based on their ids.          o id=option1    * index=index: matches an option based on its index (offset from zero).          o index=2

If no option locator prefix is provided, the default behaviour is to

match on label.

Instead of using label="", try using index="1" (to select the first element). Selenium offers label="", id="", value="", and index="" for this sort of cases. For more details, see:

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/0.8.0/reference.html

Tricky, but the "type" command helped me here:

<tr>    <td>type</td>    <td>id=numStuff</td>    <td>1</td></tr>

The corresponding html looks like this (except the @id and @name attributes)

<select id="numStuff" name="numStuff">                        <option selected= value="0">0</option>                        <option value="1">1</option>                        <option value="2">2</option>                        <option value="3">3</option>                        <option value="4">4</option>                        <option value="5">5</option>                        <option value="6">6</option>                        <option value="7">7</option>                        <option value="8">8</option>                        <option value="9">9</option></select>

I'm wondering if it works for option values longer than 1 keystroke. At least, it's good for the time being.