Earthquake Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Hi Snipez, I wanted to do a little program like many before: A little script, that's able to insert text to a webpage. As a little warmup with IE.au3 I thought, I could try a read-from-website script. My problem is to get the IDs! I tried names and IDs from the HTML code of the site, but this didnt work. A little hint would be nice... Greetingz from sunny bavaria! Yes, I am a noob! But at least I try to learn!Moddingtech.de - Home of the german Modding-Scene! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 So a hint would be to please work through some of the examples in the helpfile. If you are still having trouble, post some code and a site accessible on the internet for testing. Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthquake Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 (edited) So a hint would be to please work through some of the examples in the helpfile.If you are still having trouble, post some code and a site accessible on the internet for testing.DaleHm, I downloaded the help before, but there is no example for _IEGetObjByName. Edited August 16, 2006 by Earthquake Yes, I am a noob! But at least I try to learn!Moddingtech.de - Home of the german Modding-Scene! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Hm, I downloaded the help before, but there is no example for _IEGetObjByName. you don't need to download the helpfile. You need to install the latest production version of AutoIt and find User Defined Functions -> IE Management -> _IEGetObjByName in the production helpfile in your start menu under AutoIt3.Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lod3n Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 This is an interesting experiement. You would think that given the following confusing html: <input id=dog name=cat value=input1> <input id=cat name=dog value=input2> That getElementById('dog') would return the first one, and getElementById('cat') would return the second one. But they don't! They both return the first one. Very strange. We can prove this as follows. Save the above code into "confusing.htm" and create an au3 file in the same folder containing this code: #include <IE.au3> $oIE = _IECreate (@scriptdir & "\confusing.htm") msgbox(0,"By ID dog:",$oIE.document.getElementById('dog').value) msgbox(0,"By ID cat:",$oIE.document.getElementById('cat').value) for $input in $oIE.document.getElementsByTagName('input') if $input.name = "dog" then msgbox(0,"By NAME dog:",$input.value) if $input.name = "cat" then msgbox(0,"By NAME cat:",$input.value) next You'll see that the first two commands return the first element even though they have different IDs. The second bit loops through all of the Inputs in the document. and checks their names. (It could check their IDs instead, but I am looking to provide an answer to the original question. I'll have to rethink how I use getElementById in the future, as it seems to accept the first element with an id OR name that match. [font="Fixedsys"][list][*]All of my AutoIt Example Scripts[*]http://saneasylum.com[/list][/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 This is an interesting experiement. You would think that given the following confusing html:I'm puzzled why you posted this in this thread, but you are correct... ID and NAME share the same namespace -- this is not just in IE by the way.I agree that it can be confusing but it can be convenient as well...Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lod3n Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I posted because I was personally interested in how to select an element by just it's name and NOT it's ID, and I was suprised at how difficult it turned out to be if there's a conflict such as this. Perhaps I'm not helping Earthquake with his problem, but I thought my results noteworthy anway. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to step on anyone's toes or speak out of turn. [font="Fixedsys"][list][*]All of my AutoIt Example Scripts[*]http://saneasylum.com[/list][/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleHohm Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 No toes damaged, but old posts are referenced extensively in this forum and posting off-topic makes information much harder to find. Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curl MSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object model Automate input type=file (Related) Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better? IE.au3 issues with Vista - Workarounds SciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead? Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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