Firefox form submit problem

[Kashgari]

Hi, I am new here and learning Autoit, I am excited to discover the capabilities of it.

I am testing a simple script but having hard time . please help.

This is the script I am testing :

#Include <FF.au3>

_FFConnect()
If _FFIsConnected() Then
_FFOpenUrl("http://www.example.com/news/811")
 Sleep(6000)
_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[0]")
_FFLoadWait()
EndIf

I want to submit a form in Firefox, selecting the first element, there are 3 elements, only second element is working when I tried.

This one is working

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[1]")

BUT these two are not producing any result.

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[0]")

,or

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[2]")

This is the source code for the webpage.

<form action="http://www.example.com/search" class="search-form" method="get">

<fieldset>

<ul>

<li><label for="header_query" class="alt">Search</label> <input class="textfield" id="header_query" name="query" size="30" type="text" /></li>

<li class="submit"><input src="/images/buttons/search.png" type="image" /></li>

</ul>

</fieldset>

</form>

<form action="http://www.example.com/vote/for/811" class="vote-for" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="collection" value="1" />

<button type="submit" class="submit" title="Vote for"><span class="alt">Vote for</span></button>

</form>

<form action="http://www.example.com/vote/against/811" class="vote-against" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="collection" value="1" />

<button type="submit" class="submit" title="Vote against"><span class="alt">Vote against</span></button>

</form>

Thank you very much.

[Stilgar]

Hello,

at first, it's simpler to use just _FFFormSubmit instead of clicking the elements.

In every _FFClick(...) you are using the third form (.forms[2]) on this page - this one:

<form action="http://www.example.com/vote/against/811" class="vote-against" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="collection" value="1" />
<button type="submit" class="submit" title="Vote against"><span class="alt">Vote against</span></button>
</form>

The command:

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[0]")

clicks there on the <input type="hidden" ...

and your click on the third element:

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[2]")

should throw an error, because there are only 2 elements in this form.

So it's correct that only this one works:

_FFClick(".forms[2].elements[1]")

If wanna submit the first form:

_FFFormSubmit() OR _FFClick(".forms[0].elements[2]") - elements[2] because the fieldset is an element, too

the second:

_FFFormSubmit(1) OR _FFClick(".forms[1].elements[1]")

the third form:

_FFFormSubmit(2) OR _FFClick(".forms[2].elements[1]")

[EDIT]

If you not sure which index a form have, you can do something like this:

$sObj = _FFXPath("//form[@class='vote-against']//button[@type='submit']", "", 9)
_FFClick($sObj)
; short:
_FFClick( _FFXPath("//form[@class='vote-against']//button[@type='submit']", "", 9) )

or you can use the "FF-Page-Analyzer":

http://thorsten-willert.de/Themen/FFau3/Page_Analyzer/files

to find the index.

Edited September 23, 2009 by Stilgar

[Kashgari]

Dear Stilgar,

Thank you very much for your reply and help.

It worked.

I have been searching the form and reading for last so many hours, maybe sometimes it is better to

just ask.