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Copy/Extract HTML select options in plain textx

You want to copy HTML dropdown list options from a web page. You do right-click on the dropdown list. Oh my God !!! There is no option to do it. This article explains how to extract dropdown list options using Notepad++.

Steps:

1. Open site. 2. Now you need to get the HTML source of the dropdown list: For Firefox with Firebug: Right Click on HTML Dropdownlist, Select Inspect Element and In firebug, Right click and click copy InnerHTML option. For IE8+: Press F12, click the arrow sign in to developer tools and Select Dropdownlist. Now you will see HTML source is selected in developer tools, right-click and click copy InnerHTML option. For Chrome: Right Click on HTML Dropdownlist, Select Inspect Element and In Developer Tools, you will see that the HTML source is selected. Right-click and click Copy as HTML option. 3. Paste the HTML source in Notepad++ 4. Remove the Select tag from the top and bottom if it exists 5. Put the cursor at the top of the code and Press Ctrl + F 6. Go to Replace Tab and enter the following info: Find What: <option[^>]*>([^<]*)</option> Replace With: \1\n Select Regular Expression as Search Mode and click on Replace All. If options are already in the new line then no need to use \n in Replace With option. notepad++ find and replace You will get all options in plain text. If there are a lot of options, It will save a bunch of time.

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