Alright so this has probably been done already but i've been learning just how much you can do with IE specifically i have found that _IETagNameGetAllCollection is powerful as holy heck for instance, and this may help at least a few folks. say a form of tagname input has an outerhtml wildcard of forks to click on this element is simple, requiring very little to make it work. here is an example: the object elements outerhtml will look like this in this example: <input id="forks" class="fo