_IELinkGetCollection

[guwguw]

Allright,

the forum didn't allow a search for "single link by index", so I'll have to go this way.

_IELinkGetCollection says "Returns a collection object containing all links in the document or a single link by index."

My question: What syntax do I have to use to get the sixth link in a list of 19?

I tried

$oIE = _IEAttach ($wintitle1)
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection ($oIE)
$iNumLinks = @extended
MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $iNumLinks & " links found")
$counter = 0
For $oLink In $oLinks
    $counter += 1
    ConsoleWrite(@ScriptLineNumber & "Link Info # "& $counter &" " & $oLink.href)
Next

and get a list of 19 links.

But _IELinkGetCollection($oIE,6) does NOT return a value - what is the correct syntax?

[DaleHohm]

What are you wanting to do or know about the link once you find it?

_IELinkGetCollection($oIE,6) will not return a "value", but rather returns an object variable that references the link. That object then has properties like .href, .innerText etc.

Also, since indexes start numbering at 0, the sixth link would be index 5.

Dale

[guwguw]

What are you wanting to do or know about the link once you find it?

I want to extract a session_id, which is part of the URL. So I thought of stripping the rightmost part of the URL beginning with "&session_id=", once I figure out how to get the "sixth entry", lol.

_IELinkGetCollection($oIE,6) will not return a "value", but rather returns an object variable that references the link. That object then has properties like .href, .innerText etc.

Also, since indexes start numbering at 0, the sixth link would be index 5.

I kind of suspected that with 0 as starting value, but would have seen it at the first test ...

I'm pretty green/ignorant, where object oriented stuff is concerned, so I fail to understand why it doesn't print anything out, if I ask for the " object variable" ... I tried stuff like $oLinks[5] and such, but no success (syntax error).

The part $oLink.href made sense, but isn't there a direct way of picking number six in the list?

Additionally, where can I find a list of those "properties" for the _IE... stuff?

[DaleHohm]

The answer to your question is in the example you posted above...

$oLink = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE, 5)

$sHref = $oLink.href

For more information on the DOM, its properties, events and methods, goto MSDN -- see the links in my sig.

Dale

[guwguw]

Thanks Dale,

That was one combination I had not yet tried.

Results are as expected.

[fhanna]

Allright,

the forum didn't allow a search for "single link by index", so I'll have to go this way.

_IELinkGetCollection says "Returns a collection object containing all links in the document or a single link by index."

My question: What syntax do I have to use to get the sixth link in a list of 19?

I tried

$oIE = _IEAttach ($wintitle1)
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection ($oIE)
$iNumLinks = @extended
MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $iNumLinks & " links found")
$counter = 0
For $oLink In $oLinks
    $counter += 1
    ConsoleWrite(@ScriptLineNumber & "Link Info # "& $counter &" " & $oLink.href)
Next

and get a list of 19 links.

But _IELinkGetCollection($oIE,6) does NOT return a value - what is the correct syntax?

I would like to expand on this post.

I have variable links on a page but always want to clink on the last link. Would the following allow this.

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection ($oIE)

_IELinkClickByIndex($oIE,$oLinks)

[someone]

$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
$iNumLinks = @extended
MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $iNumLinks & " links found")
For $oLink In $oLinks
    MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $oLink.href)
Next
_IELinkClickByIndex($oIE, $iNumLinks - 1)

Just note that it $iNumLinks returns the number of links on a 1 based index, while _IELinkClickByIndex clicks on a 0 based index... hence the minus 1 to the _IELinkClickByIndex.

[DaleHohm]

I think you left out one line in your example

$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
$oLinks - _IELinkGetCollection($oIE) ; <---- oops
$iNumLinks = @extended
MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $iNumLinks & " links found")
For $oLink In $oLinks
    MsgBox(0, "Link Info", $oLink.href)
Next
_IELinkClickByIndex($oIE, $iNumLinks - 1)