This :
1/ verifySelectedValue, id=pid, 2
2/ verifySelectedLabels, id=pid, Linux

works for me with Selenium IDE 1.0.2

Régis.

What you want is:

for HTML scripts:

verifySelected, pid, label=Linux

for Perl scripts:

$sel->selected_label_is("pid", "label=Linux");

I doubt you are interested to know that Linux has value=2. If you are interested to check this anyway, add:

for HTML scripts:

verifySelected, pid, value=2

for Perl scripts:

$sel->selected_label_is("pid", "value=2");

I hope you are using Perl scripts, because they are much more powerful than HTML scripts IMO. :)

Why not use "verifySelectedLabel, pid, Linux"? Or do you actually care about the order of choices? In which case you could add a second verification for "verifySelectedIndex, pid, 2",

As to the original check, you don't want label there, because that searches for <label for="pid"> not for the selected value. Label for pid has text()='Platform' and no value attribute.

To check for automatically selected element you could use "verifyElementPresent, //select[@id='pid']/option[@selected and ./text()='Linux'] but that only considers <option selected> in source which isn't the same as currently selected element if user has changed selection.