Forms and moving elements in IE

[mikehunt114]

I'm looking to manipulate a certain button on a webpage (form element name = button1). There are two buttons on the page (the other is form element name = button2). Each individual button appears in one of two forms (form name = formtop or formbottom). The buttons appear randomly in the forms, they aren't specific to a certain form. ie. button1 can appear in formtop the first time the page loads, and then button1 can appear in formbottom the next time the page loads. Here is what I have tried:

$oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "frame")
    $oForm1 = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "form1")
    $oForm2 = _IEFormGetObjByName($oFrame, "form2")
    $oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm1, "button1")
    if @error Then
        $oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm2, "button1")
    EndIf
    _IEAction($oButton, "click")

AutoIt gives me an _IEStatus_NoMatch error, but that's all. Help?

[DaleHohm]

Your logic looks sound. Are you getting just a single NoMatch or are you getting more than one? I would expect more than one based on your symptoms.

You may want to examine the contents of _IEBodyReadHTML($oFrame) to insure it is what you expect. You sould also look at $oForm1.innerHTML and $oForm2.innerHTML to see if you see the button definition in one of them as expected.

Without a real URL out HTML source there is little more to be offered.

Dale

[DaleHohm]

The NoMatch's are significant and their affect will cascade through your code as you are are trying to find objects nested in objects that you didn't successfully attach to...

So, follow my other suggestions with examining the HTML, because that is the source of your trouble.

Dale