Use IE.au3 to click a button that has no name or ID

[Allenshill]

I am stumped. I have searched the forums with no help. I am trying to "click" a button that uses a "On Click" action, but it is not in a form, and has no aparent name or ID. Any help would be apreciated, Thanks. Below is a snip of the source.

The button I am trying to click is

<button onclick="document.exportstatus.location.href='Access_export_blank.asp?begin=1';this.disabled='1';document.getElementById('wait').src='../../graphics/processing.gif'">Begin Export</button>

CODE

<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" BORDER="0">

<TR>

<td VALIGN="TOP">

<TABLE width="200px" height="100%" STYLE="background: #D4D0C8; border-left: 1px solid #FFFFFF; border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" ID="Table2">

<tr>

<td>

<TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" BORDER="0" ID="Table1">

<TR>

<TD WIDTH="2"><IMG SRC="/nfirs/graphics/tab_top_left.gif" WIDTH="2" HEIGHT="2" BORDER="0" ALT=""></TD>

<TD STYLE="border-top: 1px solid #404040;"><IMG SRC="/nfirs/graphics/transparent.gif" WIDTH="50" HEIGHT="1" BORDER="0" ALT=""></TD>

<TD ALIGN="right" WIDTH="2"><IMG SRC="/nfirs/graphics/tab_top_right.gif" WIDTH="2" HEIGHT="2" BORDER="0" ALT=""></TD>

</TR>

<TR>

<TD STYLE="border-left: 1px solid #404040;"><IMG SRC="graphics/transparent.gif" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" BORDER="0" ALT=""></TD>

<TD ID="tab_multi" STYLE="cursor: hand; font-size: 10px; background: #D4D0C8; padding-right: 2px; border-right: 1px solid #404040;" onmouseover="this.style.background='#ECE6DA'" onmouseout="this.style.background='#D4D0C8'" COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="center"><STRONG>History</STRONG></TD>

</TR>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<TABLE width="200px" height="100%" STYLE="background: #D4D0C8; border-left: 1px solid #FFFFFF; border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" ID="Table3">

<tr>

<td>

<div STYLE="height: 500px;">

<a href="/File.aspx?FileGuid={4FD71E17-BF72-42DD-9849-838DD03ED99E}">08 Jan 2008 17:31&nbsp;-&nbsp;1005&nbsp;Kilobytes</a><br>

<a href="/File.aspx?FileGuid={9394C646-8E79-4ACB-9FFD-08BE5A06E68B}">08 Jan 2008 16:13&nbsp;-&nbsp;997&nbsp;Kilobytes</a><br>

<a href="/File.aspx?FileGuid={CD69298B-1E55-47C6-8EE0-A2AF99E60712}">08 Jan 2008 13:14&nbsp;-&nbsp;989&nbsp;Kilobytes</a><br>

</div>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

<TD VALIGN="top" width=100% STYLE="background:#F6F4E8;; padding-left:20px; padding-top:10px; border-left: 1px solid #808080">

<div STYLE="WIDTH: 400px;">

<B>MS Access Data Export</B><BR><BR>

This tool will export all your departments data to an Microsoft Access database.

At the end of the process you will be provided with a link to download this file.

You can then use Access as your report

generator, or export directly from Access to another report application.

<BR><BR>

After you click the Begin Export button, you will see a status bar slowly fill. The processing time on this request can take a few minutes, please be patient.

<BR><BR>

</div>

<button onclick="document.exportstatus.location.href='Access_export_blank.asp?begin=1';this.disabled='1';document.getElementById('wait').src='../../graphics/processing.gif'">Begin Export</button> <BR><BR>

<IMG ID="wait" SRC="../../graphics/transparent.gif" ALT="Bit Processor" HEIGHT="40" WIDTH="400" BORDER="0" STYLE=""><BR>

<iframe NAME="exportstatus" SRC="Access_export_blank.asp" STYLE="margin-top: 20px; width: 400px; Height: 250px;" FRAMEBORDER="0"></iframe>

<BR>

<!--<A HREF="../../imageuploads/logfile.txt" TARGET="_blank">Log File</A>-->

</TD>

</TR>

</table>

[rbhkamal]

It should be something like this:

#include<IE.au3>
$__oIE = IE OBJECT


$__oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($__oIE , 0)
If @error Or Not IsObj($__oForm) Then
    Exit
EndIf

$__oCollection = _IEFormElementGetCollection( $__oForm )
$__oItem = ""
For $__oItem In $__oCollection
    If $__oItem.value == "Begin Export" Then
        $__oItem.click
        Sleep( 100 )
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

_IELoadWait( $__oIE )

Edit: I'm not sure if it's $__oItem.value or $__oItem.name. Also not that your page MUST have a form.

Edited January 9, 2008 by rbhkamal

[DaleHohm]

Your approach is sound, but the details are not...

<button> is actually not a form element (this is historical - it would make sense, but button was added to HTML long after FORM).

So, you can use the same approach with $oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "button"), then look therough the elements (For $oButton in $oButtons) as you did and check the value of _IEPropertyGet($oButton, "innertext")

Dale

[Allenshill]

Thanks for the help. It worked like a charm. I was on the right track, but I could not figgure out which property to use. Now that you point it out it is quite obvious.

CODE

$oButtons = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "button")

For $oButton in $oButtons

$oButtonTxt=_IEPropertyGet($oButton, "innertext")

if $oButtonTxt="Begin Export" Then

$oButton.click

EndIf

Next