IE Library - _IEGetObjBy functions

[Vishal85]

_IEGetObjById and _IEGetObjByName functions use variable of an InternetExplorer.Application, Window or Frame object as reference to find any dom element.

Is it possible to use a dom element instead of InternetExplorer.Application, Window or Frame to find target dom element instead the dom element. This will help in finding elements using a parent child relationship where duplicate target dom elements exists on the HTML page.

Other automation tools like WebDriver do have this feature. It would be great to have something like this in AutoIt. I love the way AutoIt works!!!!! Especially the IE UDF. Cool stuff from DALE and other developers.

Ex - i would like to do something like this,

$oIE = _IEAttach("Title")

$oParentObject = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "Parent Widget or element Id which contains my target widget in its hierarchy below")

$oTargetObject = _IEGetObjById(oParentObject , "Id of widget i would like to find and do some action")

_IEAction($oTargetObject, "click")

This will help in situations where there are widgets with duplicate ids on the page....Ex - 2 Add buttons with same id on the same page.....One add button to add a CAR...another Add button to add a Vehicle. In this case i cannot click on the exact Add button i want just with the Add button id. i will need reference of their immediate parent object to uniquely identify them.

[DaleHohm]

In fact, _IEGetObjByName DOES work that way - it is an oversight in the docs not to specify it.

_IEGetObjByID does NOT work that way because it is illegal to have two objects with the same ID on a page. How the DOM handles such a situation is inconsistent and you may want to use other methods to select such objects (such as _IETagnameGetCollection).

Dale

[Vishal85]

Thanks for the calrification Dale! I used the _IETagnameGetCollection function finally!

One quick question. We often do something like oObject.title or oObject.id or oObject.name etc...... is there a way i can paremetrize the .id, .name, .title....

I would like to do something like

$sAttribValue = oObject.$sAttribute

OR

$sAttribValue = oObject & "." & $sAttribute

Here $sAttribute = id or name or title or innerHTML etc....

I tried both ways but didnt work.

[DaleHohm]

You can use Execute like this:

$oItems = Execute("$o_object.elements('" & $s_Name & "')")

Dale

[Vishal85]

I will try that....thanks for your help!

Plesae let me know if can help contribute to the IE UDF. I have worked quite a lot with the IE UDF and have gone through you code.