Clicking on buttons in IE

[weirddave]

I lot of web pages have clickable buttons and other controls which I'd like to be able to click on with autoit, problem is, there's no control ID for them and the position in the window changes due to adverts of differing sizes.

An example page is this one, at the bottom there are 2 drop down menus (skin selector and language).

Any ideas?

[furrycow]

I lot of web pages have clickable buttons and other controls which I'd like to be able to click on with autoit, problem is, there's no control ID for them and the position in the window changes due to adverts of differing sizes.

An example page is this one, at the bottom there are 2 drop down menus (skin selector and language).

Any ideas?

By name...

_IEFormElementGetObjByName ( ByRef $o_object, $s_name [, $i_index = 0] )

name="skinselectorbox"

name="langselectorbox"

[jvanegmond]

By name...

_IEFormElementGetObjByName ( ByRef $o_object, $s_name [, $i_index = 0] )

Edited February 3, 2009 by Manadar

[weirddave]

Ah, I see that the object names are in the page code.

It's unfortunate that the page I'm looking at has a bunch of buttons where I can't see the name!

The page code is way too big to post here.

The page I'm looking at is a facebook application called robot builder

Basically, there are a couple of buttons with the same text value, from what I can see they are each in a form, but the forms have no name, just an ID

Here's one of the forms:

<form method="POST" action="salvage.php?area=8" id="app37944961729_form_49884c9361a759c00393646">

<input type="hidden" name="fb_sig_locale" value="en_GB" />

<input type="hidden" name="pack" value="39" />

Times to Salvage:

<select type="text" name="number">

<option value="1"> 1 </option>

<option value="10"> 10 </option>

</select>

<input type="submit" style="width: 100px; float: right;" value="Salvage" />

</form>

The button is labled Salvage as in the penultimate line in the code above. All the forms are like this. Note there is a dropdown menu with some options. Each form looks the same with the same name sections.

The form id is different for each, but it looks randomly generated each time.

Any thoughts on how I might go about cracking this one?