Is there a way to monitor the increase or decrease of pull-down items in a web page?
There are about 100 choices in the pull-downs in the Toraru web page, and they increase or decrease daily. We would like to be notified of any changes when the choices in the pulldowns increase or decrease.
it depends on how the page is rendering the dropdown.
pages usually render the choices using a select tag. in this case, monitoring the select tag will also monitor all of its children (items in the dropdown). this works because all of the items are present at the child even if the dropdown is not open.
sometimes when the number of options is large, pages can use a custom component. the custom component usually renders the list only after it is opened, usually by a click or a keypress action. these kind of dropdowns can be monitored by automating the action using a macro. check out Macro: Record and Replay Automated Actions – Distill. the macro can open the dropdown before its content is monitored.
if you aren’t sure which option will work for you, feel free to share the page’s url. i will check it out and let you know.