IE Button Simulated Clicks

[JohhnyAmerica]

Hello,

I'm pretty experienced with AutoIt and HTML, but I have come to a fault.

I'm attempted to simulate a click on a button, but within the HTML, the button has no name, so not only can you not add anything into the address bar, but you can't simulate button clicks with AutoIt. Can someone explain to me how I can simulate a button press on a non-named button without the Send function while also using the IE.au3 #include?

Thanks Alot,

Johnny America

[Hasher]

If the button doesnt have a name you have to use its ID to referance it in IE.au3 , You can find the ID by using a DOM inspector

[DaleHohm]

$oButton = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "button", 0-based-index)

_IEAction($oButton, "click")

Dale

[JohhnyAmerica]

I'm sorry, neither techniques have worked.

I used a dom inspector, the button had no id.

The script Dale posted also did not work.

Here is a sample piece of HTML that uses the technique I'm trying to break.

<form action='buttonpushed.phtml' method='get'>
<input type='submit' value='Push this button!'>
</form>

It links to another site, but you have to have pressed the button in order to gain access to it.

Thanks,

Johnny America

[Hasher]

Ok heres another solution using the buttons value, see how you go with this

#include <IE.au3>
    _IEErrorHandlerRegister ("MyErrFunc1")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ("Autoit Forums", "Title")  ; change to your page or use IEcreate
    $oDoc = _IEDocGetObj ($oIE)
    $forms = _IEFormGetCollection ($oDoc)
        For $form in $forms
            $frmobjs = _IEFormElementGetCollection ($form)
                For $frmobj in $frmobjs
                    $value = $frmobj.value
                    if $value = "Push this button!" Then
                        $butname = $frmobj.name  ; might have to use $frmobj.id instead
                        $oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($form,$butname)
                        _IEAction($oButton, "click")            
                        endif
                    
                    next

next
func MyErrFunc1()
 ConsoleWrite($frmobj.value)
 EndFunc

[DaleHohm]

Ok heres another solution using the buttons value, see how you go with this

#include <IE.au3>
    _IEErrorHandlerRegister ("MyErrFunc1")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ("Autoit Forums", "Title")  ; change to your page or use IEcreate
    $oDoc = _IEDocGetObj ($oIE)
    $forms = _IEFormGetCollection ($oDoc)
        For $form in $forms
            $frmobjs = _IEFormElementGetCollection ($form)
                For $frmobj in $frmobjs
                    $value = $frmobj.value
                    if $value = "Push this button!" Then
                        $butname = $frmobj.name  ; might have to use $frmobj.id instead
                        $oButton = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($form,$butname)
                        _IEAction($oButton, "click")            
                        endif
                    
                    next

next
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[Hasher]

BTW my code will fail on most sites using frames :-(

Hasher's example should work and he is doing some fancy things because he has a good understanding of the DOM

Only because of Dale , IE.au3 and MSDN . Dale is an IE god ;-)