How do I wait for browser items to appear?

[bmihura]

How do I get AutoIt to wait for items in a browser (on a web page) to show up, like buttons or text boxes or hyperlinks?

WinWaitActive is nice for operating system windows, but does AutoIt have functions for handling items within web pages?

If not, is there something other than AutoIt for web pages?

[AutoChris]

How do I get AutoIt to wait for items in a browser (on a web page) to show up, like buttons or text boxes or hyperlinks?

WinWaitActive is nice for operating system windows, but does AutoIt have functions for handling items within web pages?

If not, is there something other than AutoIt for web pages?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I usually stick with the basics when writing scripts--especially simple scripts. What I usually do when waiting for a page to load is to do a PixelGetColor on the Stop Loading This Page icon on the top of the Mozilla browser to see if the pixel color is no longer red (meaning the page is finished loading.)

On IE, you can just do a StatusBarGetText ("Title", "Text", 1) and look for the word Done to see if the page has finished loading.

Once the page is fully loading, you can be pretty sure the buttons/hyperlinks have loaded as well.

[DaleHohm]

The StatusBarGetText method is simple and is a good solution.

If your interaction needs with IE are more complex however, have a look at the IE Automation UDF Library. The code below will create a browser window, navigate to a page and wait for the page to finish loading before returning control to you:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate()
_IENavigate("www.autoitscript.com")

Dale

[dandv]

Is it really impossible to determine when a web page has finished loading in Chrome?

I tried WinWaitActive() and passed a text parameter of "help" because the page I need to load has the word help at the bottom, but the script never reaches past that point.

...
Send("https://support.twitter.com/forms/general{ENTER}")
Sleep(1000)
WinWaitActive("Twitter Help Center - Google Chrome","help")
; never here

[somdcomputerguy]

If not, is there something other than AutoIt for web pages?

Maybe you can do something with this, the REBOL Language.