Clicking a class in Autoit

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

So for the first screen the html  for the Next Button appears like this 

<input name="command" class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" value="Next">

And I created this function to click a button 

Func ClickIEButtonContaining($ButtonName)

For $oButton In $oButtons
    ;~ Check if Button InnerText equals Log In and perform an action.
    ;~ Uncomment the _IEAction line below to submit the form.
    If $oButton.InnerText = $ButtonName    Then
       if @Error then
          ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "Error finding " & $ButtonName &  " button")

          Endif
        MsgBox(64, ' Button Found', 'Button found with value: ' & $oButton.InnerText, 2)
        Sleep(2500)
            ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "Clicking button containing: " & $ButtonName)

        _IEAction($oButton, 'click')
        ExitLoop
        Sleep(4000)
    EndIf
 Next

EndFunc

However on the next page the same Next Button appears with this HTML 

<input name="command" class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" value="Next">

however the exact same code doesn't work on the 2nd page after clicking next  

So I guess my question is why isn't the below code working? 

 

;****************************************Click Next ********************************************/
Global $oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "Button")
;below function in Generic Fucntions
ClickIEButtonContaining("Next")


ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "First next button")

  ;/****************************End*************************************************************/

 ;/****************************Due Digilgence Screen***************************************/
Sleep(8000)

_IELoadWait($oIE)
ClickIEButtonContaining("Next")
exit

 

[Subz]

What is the "Button" tag, it should be "input"?  Why not use _IEGetObjByName since both names are the same?

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

1 hour ago, Subz said:

What is the "Button" tag, it should be "input"?  Why not use _IEGetObjByName since both names are the same?

First i tried an IEACTIon on the command tab which just clicked the Previous button (rather than the next) 

So I tried looping through them with

;Click Next
Sleep(8000)


ConsoleWrite("Starting for loop for 2nd next button")
$oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "command")
Sleep(4000)
;below function in Generic Fucntions
For $oButton In $oButtons
    ;~ Check if Button InnerText equals Log In and perform an action.
    ;~ Uncomment the _IEAction line below to submit the form.
    If $oButton.InnerText = "Next"     Then
       if @Error then
          ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "Error finding Next input")

          Endif
        MsgBox(64, ' Button Found', 'Button found with value: ' & $oButton.InnerText, 2)
        Sleep(2500)
            ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & "Clicking button containing: Next" )

        _IEAction($oButton, 'click')
        ExitLoop
        Sleep(4000)
    EndIf
 Next

And console ouput I get is 

Clicking button containing: Next
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: 
$ObjID equals the following: Starting for loop for 2nd next button>Exit code: 0    Time: 290.8

It doesn't seem to hit the For loop and remains on the same page 

Edited February 4, 2020 by CaptainBeardsEyesBeard

[Subz]

You need to understand what tags, attributes are for example tags are in the format <input ../> <div ../> <a .../>, attributes appear after the tag for example <tag name="command" id="Id1" class="cssClass" ..>

So you can't use _IETagNameGetCollection to get attributes

As I mentioned above id and name can be called using _IEGetObjById, _IEGetObjByName for example the following should work (as long as no other tag has an attribute name="command"

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "command")
_IEAction($oButton, "click")

If you wanted to use tag collection then you would need to use something like:

ConsoleWrite("Starting for loop for 2nd next button" & @CRLF)
$oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "input")
Sleep(4000)
If IsObj($oButtons) Then
    For $oButton In $oButtons
        If $oButton.getAttribute("value") = "Next" Then
            MsgBox(64, ' Button Found', 'Button found with value: ' & $oButton.getAttribute("value"), 2)
            _IEAction($oButton, 'click')
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf

 

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

That's great that worked  

I don't suppose you could have a look at how would I send text to this html as well?

 

<input class="select2-search__field" type="search" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" role="textbox" placeholder="Select a practice area" style="width: 532px;">

I have tried using the below for loop and changing the innertext bracket to outertext and value to no avail 

$oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "input")
Sleep(4000)

If IsObj($oButtons) Then
    For $oButton In $oButtons
        If $oButton.getAttribute("innertext") = "Select a practice area" Then
            MsgBox(64, ' Button Found', 'Button found with value: ' & $oButton.getAttribute("value"), 2)
      _IEFormElementSetValue($oButton, "BAG - Co Comm Bristol" )
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
    Next
EndIf

 

[Subz]

InnerText is a property not an attribute, you would need to use If $oButton.getAttribute("placeholder") = "Select a practice area"

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

ah cheers god damn