How to click on a javascript link/button?

[pedmacedo]

Hello guys, I need to click on a javascript link, at least that's what I think it is. Here is the screenshot to help you guys understand

I tried geting it's X and Y position on the screen manualy but that does not work for all cases, because the position of the button changes depending on the page contend. The "button" I want to click is the "Veja telefone e fax" in the picture.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT for more info: What I click on this button a small window appears in the middle of the SAME page showing the info I need to access(I couldn't find this info on the HTML code)

Also, I can't select this button by tabbing

Edited January 13, 2011 by pedmacedo

[pedmacedo]

Any sugestion guys?

[JohnOne]

Any sugestion guys?

Yes, bumping your posts so soon will make some poeple ignore it.

[Newb]

Already tried with _IEFormGetCollection and _IEFormElementGetCollection combined togherer with an _IeAction click at the end?

And with Controlsend?

You might also want to try WinHttp.au3 after catching the POST or GET header that the button sends.

Nothing else comes up in my mind for now

[pedmacedo]

Thanks for the sugestions Newb. I just found out that I can use _IENavigate($ie,"javascript:showTelPerfil(1);")

JohnOne looks like that's not what happened, I rapidly received 2 replies.

Anyway, sorry for doing that.

Edited January 13, 2011 by pedmacedo

[JohnOne]

Thanks for the sugestions Newb. I just found out that I can use _IENavigate($ie,"javascript:showTelPerfil(1);")

JohnOne looks like that's not what happened, I rapidly received 2 replies.

Anyway, sorry for doing that.

You got lucky

[pedmacedo]

Hey folks, I solved this problem but another one arised, when I use

_IENavigate($ie,"javascript:showTelPerfil(1);")

The script doesn't do anything else, it just sits idle(not paused). So then I thought using _IENavigate without waiting for the page to load

_IENavigate($ie,"javascript:showTelPerfil(1);",0)

And now the following error occurs:

Any idea about what could be causing the problem? Are we supposed to use _IENavigate with javascript code?

Again, thanks for any help!

Edit: If I manually navigate to any other site(while the script is running) it starts working again, till it reaches this line of code again (it's a loop)

Edited January 13, 2011 by pedmacedo

[DaleHohm]

There must be something else going on. Whether you tell it to wait or not, the URL will get processed in $o_object.navigate. When you tell it not to wait, it simply returns to your code without entering the wait loop for page completion... is there another _IENavigate after this that may be triggering the error?

Did you try _IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Veja telefone e fax") ???

Suggest you get DebugBar (see my sig) to examine the HTML... you need to understand that View Source shows you the HTML before any client processing, DebugBar will shouw you the final markup.

Dale

[pedmacedo]

Did you try _IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Veja telefone e fax") ???

Dale

I didn't try to do that because on the help file they say it shouldn't work with "onclick" and javascript stuff, but it just worked

Thanks Dale!

[DaleHohm]

The remark you are referring to is trying to tell you that other elements, like DIV, can look like links and are not... _IELinkClickByText has no restriction with anything to do with Javascript.

Remarks

Not all elements that appear to be links actually are. It is common practice to attach onclick Javascript events to other DOM elements to simulate the behavior of links. To activate such elements, use "click" with _IEAction.

[corgano]

In many cases _IEAction "click" does not work with javascript-related buttons. I found a way to create a mouseevent and send it to the button to trigger the javascript linked here, which might work when IE's .click() does not.

[BrewManNH]

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