Links in HTML DIV's

[drodbar]

Hi all,

Apologies if something similar has been asked already - I've had a good look through, but can't find anything specific. I'm also fairly new to AutoIt scripting and can't find anything in the IE.AU3 help that does what I need.

I am trying to automate a web-based system we use and need to be able to click links that are contained within HTML DIVs. The problem is that they are not standard DIVs and links and have a lot of extra information. An example of one such is:

<div abID=123456 abtype="something" abBtn="aButtonType1" class="something1 something2 something3"><a href="javascript:" class="btn" title=""></a><span>Link Text</span></div>

As you can see, it's a bit messy and I'm stuck with how it's written. I have tried using AutoIt to search for "Link Text", but this doesn't work. Also, as there is no real href address for each link, I can't search on that either, plus there can be numerous links generated this way on each page. The only thing I can see that changes individually for each link is the value of abBtn or abID.

Does anyone know a way to search for the abBtn or abID value and select the link text that follows?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[Andreik]

Maybe you can read the page source and extract all this div elements and then search for links.

[jdelaney]

I just updated the UDF in my signature...as long as you know the XPATH, you can return the HTML DOM object(s) to an array.

<-- ha, no longer 'mass spammer'

Edited August 22, 2012 by jdelaney