Unable to get to the second instance of an Object by ID

[climber]

I want to click the "next" button on a page. 
I had a piece of code that worked, but something changed about the page, and now it doesn't.
What I was using, but is broken now:    _IELinkClickByText($oIE, "next", 0, 1) 
It now gets @error = 7 ($_IEStatus_NoMatch) - No Match

What I see in DOM Explorer in IE, is there are two buttons, side by side, with the same ID,
distinguished from each other only by the button text.  It appears on the page as <prev | next> 
The code is
<span id="reviewsPagerLink_next" onclick="reviewsShowPage(0, -1);">prev</span>
|
<span id="reviewsPagerLink_next" onclick="reviewsShowPage(0, 1);">next</span>

 

The only statement I've found that partially works now is 
_IEGetObjByID($oIE, "reviewsPagerLink_next")`

But when I use _IEGetObjByID, I get only the first button, which is the "prev" button.
What I need is the second instance, which is the "next" button.
This function only returns one instance.

When I use _IEGetObjByName, (which is capable of returning a collection), I don't get a hit at all.   
Searching for either "reviewsPagerLink_next" or just "next".
@error = 7    ($_IEStatus_NoMatch) - No Match

 

Any tips on how to get to the second instance of the "reviewsPagerLink_next", which is the real "next" button?

 

[Danp2]

You could try something like this --

$oSpan = _IEGetObjByID($oIE, "reviewsPagerLink_next")
$oSpan.NextSibling.Click()

 

[Nine]

Might not work since there is text in between.  Use this if it doesn't work :

$oSpan = _IEGetObjByID($oIE, "reviewsPagerLink_next")
$oSpan.nextElementSibling.Click()

 

[climber]

Thanks for the quick response.   👍 😀

I've framed it up to handle the first page which is simply "<next>", subsequent pages which are "<prev | next>", and the final page which is just "<prev>".

MsgBox shows me I'm detecting/evaluating properly, so I have the flow laid out.

But --- my AutoIt is not recognizing nextSibling.click or nextElementSibling.click.

Is there another Include that's needed to support those?  I searched a bit, but didn't find anything...

 

 

[climber]

Thanks for the quick response.   👍 😀

I've framed it up to handle the first page which is simply "<next>", subsequent pages which are "<prev | next>", and the final page which is just "<prev>".

MsgBox shows me I'm detecting/evaluating properly, so I have the flow laid out.

But --- my AutoIt (version 3.3.14.4) is not recognizing nextSibling.click or nextElementSibling.click.

Is there another Include that's needed to support those?  I searched a bit, but didn't find anything...

 

 

[climber]

edit - (or attempted edit)...  

My AutoIt is now updated to 3.3.14.5 after reading the sticky about that.

So the remaining question - do I need to include another #include for these?

Or perhaps I need to set up a For loop.  Will try to do that next.  🙂

 

[climber]

The loop didn't work.  
For $oSpan in $oSpan.
Probably because _IEGetObjByID doesn't return a collection.

So I'm still stuck on how to get 
nextElementSibling.Click() or nextElement.Click()
to work.  😞

 

[Nine]

Local $cSpans = _IETagNameGetCollection ($oIE, "span")
For $oSpan in $cSpans
  If $oSpan.innerText = "next" Then
    $oSpan.click ()
    ExitLoop
  EndIf
Next

if that doesn't work, it is probably because you have iframe somewhere...

[climber]

That worked great, thank you!

I added a boolean so I know if I'm at the end.  (no "next" button found)

 

Quote

   $bClickedNext = False
   Local $cSpans = _IETagNameGetCollection ($oIE, "span")
   For $oSpan in $cSpans
     If $oSpan.innerText = "next" Then
       $oSpan.click ()
       $bClickedNext = True
       ExitLoop
     EndIf
   Next