1. We are using JQuery selectMenu as drop down boxes, to be able to select using Watir. HTML Code for selectMenu **************** <div class="standardSelects"> <div id="genderSelect" class="selectMenu"> <span class="title"> <a onclick="return false;" href="#">Select one</a> </span> <ul class="optionList" style="display: none;"> <li id="NotSet" class="selected">Select one</li> <li id="M">Male</li> <li id="F">Female</li> </ul> <input id="Gender" class="dropDownHiddenValue" type="hidden" value="NotSet" name="Gender"/> <input id="GenderName" class="dropDownHiddenName" type="hidden" value="Select one" name="GenderName"/> <span class="currentSelectionNumber hide">0</span> </div> </div> ******************** 2. I have code like this to handle it and it works fine for IE, but does not do any thing for Firefox. browser.div(:id,"selectMenu").click #To open the control browser.div(:id,"selectMenu").ul(:class,"optionList").li(:id,'F').fire_event("onClick") I tried li(:id,'f').click then firing the event on select menu and different things, nothing worked, I can see that watir is seeing the object alright, but some how the event is not triggered for firefox. **I have simplified the code so that I can explain what I am doing