[SOLVED] Read link text (with IE UDF)

[AdmiralAlkex 118]

Here's a html on my website to use as example:

http://hem.passagen.se/amax/CodecControl/index.html

(please excuse the ads and popup, it's one of those "free" hosts)

Getting links with IE UDF is easy;

$oIE = _IECreate("http://hem.passagen.se/amax/CodecControl/index.html", 0, 1, 1, 0)

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE, 1)
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oFrame)
$iNumLinks = @extended
ConsoleWrite($iNumLinks & " links found" & @CRLF)
For $oLink In $oLinks
    ConsoleWrite($oLink.href & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oLink.title & @CRLF)
Next

;~ Sleep(10000) ;To see the page

_IEQuit($oIE)

But is there a way to get the links text? ("CodecControl 2.2.8" and "CodecControl 2.2.5")

Also, any guidence on how to have some data hidden that can in one way or another be associated with the links? Abusing the "title" is kinda weak.

Edited April 9, 2011 by AdmiralAlkex

[PsaltyDS 28]

$oLink.innerText

[AdmiralAlkex 118]

Thank you!

Do you have the link to msdn for this? Can't find it.

Any tip on the other thing?

[PsaltyDS 28]

Properties of "a" tag; and the .innerText property.

For the second part, you could assign a .nodeValue property.

[AdmiralAlkex 118]

For the second part, you could assign a .nodeValue property.

I can't find out how

[PsaltyDS 28]

I can't find out how

Oops...

If the object is an element, the nodeValue returns null.

It's kind of misusing the property, but you can use .dataSrc as a custom string attribute:

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IE_Example("basic")
$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)

$iIndex = 0
For $oLink In $oLinks
    $oLink.dataSrc = "#LinkCustomData_" & $iIndex
    $iIndex += 1
Next

For $oLink In $oLinks
    ConsoleWrite(".innerText = " & $oLink.innerText & "; .dataSrc = " & $oLink.dataSrc & @LF)
Next

[AdmiralAlkex 118]

Thank you PsaltyDS, .dataSrc works good (much better than abusing tooltips (.title)).