_IE and Javascript

[cascius]

----------SOLVED----------

See my last post for solution.

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Hi guys, I was reading through IE.au3 but didn't find a function to run a javascript. I did find _IEHeadInsertEventScript, but my understanding is that this will add JS code to the header, not run it.

In my case, I already have the javascript function DoSomething() in the header and just want to call it.

Can anyone help me? I feel I'm missing something obvious :s

Thanks,

- Cascius

Edited March 27, 2010 by cascius

[CanHasDIY]

What are you trying to do? There may be an easier way...

[cascius]

Essentially I'm trying to automate some actions on one of my site.

Right now I have a script parsing through the HTML looking for an item with a certain innerText, and click it. That item has a javascript attached to it. I've been getting various results with this: sometimes the script thinks it has performed the click but nothing happens; some other times it works just fine...

The things is, rather than going through this complex parsing and then trying that click, I'd rather use the function attached to it directly. In the following example it would be: "DoSomething(2,22)"

Here's a simplified example:

Sample page content

<div id="navigation">
    <a onclick="DoSomething(1,22);return false;" class="button"><span>Do Something 1</span></a>
    <a onclick="DoSomething(2,22);return false;" class="button"><span>Do Something 2</span></a>
    <a onclick="DoSomething(3,22);return false;" class="button"><span>Do Something 3</span></a>
</div>

Sample Au3 script

$DoSomethingDiv = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "navigation")                   ;Find "navigation", the container of those links:
$DoSomethingLinks = _IETagnameGetCollection($DoSomethingDiv, "a")       ;Create a collection of all the links within "navigation"
For $DoSomethingLink In $DoSomethingLinks                               ;Loop through the collection of links
    $DoSomethingLinkText = $DoSomethingLink.innerText                   ;Get the innerText of each link
    If StringInStr($DoSomethingLinkText, "Do Something 2") Then         ;check if the innerText matches the value "Do something 2"
        _IEAction($DoSomethingLink, "click")                            ;Click the link
        _IELoadWait($oIE, 0, 7000)                                      ;Wait for page to be loaded
        ExitLoop
    EndIf
Next

So what's really annoying is that "_IEAction($DoSomethingLink, "click")" doesn't always work in this case. I have it working flawlessly elsewhere, but this one is bugging me. Since I already know the JS function would be "DoSomething(2,22)", I'm thinking there might be a way to avoid all this hassle and just invoke it.

Does it make sense?

Thanks,

- Cascius

[cascius]

Solved!

Here's what I used:

$oIE.document.parentwindow.execScript('DoSomething(1,22);')

I hope this will be useful to someone.

- Cascius

[lovett1991]

+1 Very useful, the developer for our pages left out id's/names for many objects making somethings impossible without directly calling Jscript!

Thankyou