IE _IEGetObjById Textinput invalid

[whanenbu]

Issue: I found I can set the value but it is not accepted.

Code:

$oIE = _IEAttach ("https://www.collateraldna.com/forms/default.aspx", "URL")

$oDiv = _IEGetObjById ($oIE, "APPRAISER")

$oDiv.value = "Me"  This works

_IEAction($oDiv, "click") Result 0 but does nothing

_IEAction($oDiv, "focus") Result 2 ($_IEStatus_COMError) - COM Error in Object reference

From IE F12 See in red

<input name="APPRAISER" class="TextInput invalid" id="APPRAISER" aria-describedby="ui-tooltip-439" style="width: 301px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid;" type="text" value="" validate="true">

What happens, on the screen I click on the field, enter "Me", click off the field and the textinput turns to valid.  I can add the text input by the .value but I can not get it to be accepted.  I can't get the click does not go anywhere and focus gives me the error.  How do I put in the value and then get it to validate????  Somehow I need it to execute.  

[Inververs]

You need dispatch KeyboardEvent for this input. And if validation occurs when focus out, you need init on blur event too.

Click events tab in debug pannel, its show all listened events.

[DaleHohm]

You can also use .fireEvent method to to trigger arbitrary events.  Search the forum or see IE.au3 source to see how it is done.

Dale

[whanenbu]

$oIE = _IEAttach ("https://www.collateraldna.com/forms/default.aspx", "URL")

$oDiv = _IEGetObjById ($oIE, "APPRAISER")

_IEAction($oDiv, "focus")
 ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "Me", 1)
 ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{TAB}")
 Sleep(50 )

This seems to work but not totally accurate but mostly. 

This is faster:

$oSubmit = _IEGetObjById ($oIE, "APPRAISER")

_IEAction($oSubmit, "focus")
$oSubmit.value = "Me" & " "
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{BS}")
ControlSend($hwnd, "", "[CLASS:Internet Explorer_Server; INSTANCE:1]", "{TAB}")
Sleep( 50 )

I added a space and then sent a backspace to remove it and then a tab to get off the variable which triggered the validation.

I sent _IEAction( $oSubmit, "blur") but that did not seem to do anything.  I will try the .fireevent.

Thanks