_IE.au3 and form onclicks using span IDs

[automationexpert12345]

Maybe someone can offer some guidance:

I am trying to navigate to a given page from a certain website. The link to this page is presented using a span tag and CSS to modify the text. Using the _IELinkClickByText function does not work as there is no link attached to the text - it is of course a more complicated onclick to a .js function. This js function checks the span tag's ID variable for a given string, and matches it accordingly with a select case in the .js. If the text matches, the document.formname.action is = to the proper URL for the desired page.

Any idea how I can duplicate this functionality using one or a combination of the powerful _IE functions?

Thanks!

[automationexpert12345]

5 minutes later, I thought to myself, why not just assign the action...

 

$oIE.document.Name.action = "filename.asp"

$o_form = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "Name")

_IEFormSubmit($o_form,0)

 

Silly me - writing it out helped diagnose and solve the problem. Thanks for reading! =)

 

 

Maybe someone can offer some guidance:

 

I am trying to navigate to a given page from a certain website. The link to this page is presented using a span tag and CSS to modify the text. Using the _IELinkClickByText function does not work as there is no link attached to the text - it is of course a more complicated onclick to a .js function. This js function checks the span tag's ID variable for a given string, and matches it accordingly with a select case in the .js. If the text matches, the document.formname.action is = to the proper URL for the desired page.

 

Any idea how I can duplicate this functionality using one or a combination of the powerful _IE functions?

 

Thanks!

Edited July 9, 2015 by automationexpert12345

[DaleHohm]

5 minutes later, I thought to myself, why not just assign the action...

$oIE.document.Name.action = "filename.asp"

$o_form = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "Name")

_IEFormSubmit($o_form,0)

Silly me - writing it out helped diagnose and solve the problem. Thanks for reading! =)

Nice.

I think you could have also have done it with _IEGetObjByName to get a reference to the span tag you wanted (or perhaps _IETagNameGetCollection) and then _IEAction with a "click" parameter.

Dale