Thank you, Ken and everyone who responded. Ken, you had the answer. I tried my $child = $firefox->find_child_element($elem, "./select/option[\@value='50']"); and then a call to mouse_move_to_location and then to click and when I then retrieved the contents again, the 50 was selected. Thank you.

Note that if you inspect the element rather viewing the source, you'll be able to see what I represented -- which is also found in the $content variable

I have yet another, similar problem (to select an option which, in this case is part of an html "li" child element. Maybe you can help. The html is: 

 <ul class="listOfChoices">
            <li style="display:none" class="clear-filter"><a onclick="
+clearFilter('Condition', 67287, 'yugioh')" href="javascript:void(0)">
+Clear</a></li>
                <li class="">
                    <a onclick="changeFilter('Condition', 'NearMint', 
+67287, 'yugioh')" href="javascript:void(0)">
                        <span class="option"></span>
                        Near Mint
                    </a>
                </li>
                <li class="">
                    <a onclick="changeFilter('Condition', 'LightlyPlay
+ed', 67287, 'yugioh')" href="javascript:void(0)">
                        <span class="option"></span>
                        Lightly Played
                    </a>
                </li>
                ….

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and I want to select the "Near Mint" selection. I can find the "listOfChoices" element. I am (as you can tell) not familiar with xpath, but reading through it.

Also, how does one print an element?

In reply to Re^2: Selenium::Firefox: problem finding a child_element by samberman
in thread Selenium::Firefox: problem finding a child_element by samberman

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