set fucus to an element in webpage. no name or id ??

[AlienStar]

hello everybody

I wanna set focus to password field in twitter.com

when view page source I found this :

<div class="LoginForm-input LoginForm-password">
    <input type="password" class="text-input" name="session[password]" placeholder="Password" autocomplete="current-password">
  </div>

so I use this code :

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://twitter.com/login?username_or_email=xxxxx")

while _IELoadWait($oIE)=false
    Sleep(100)
wend

Local $ofield = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "session[password]")

_IEAction( $ofield , "focus")

but it failed

please help

Edited October 9, 2017 by AlienStar

[Danp2]

You are using the wrong command to retrieve an input element. You'll need to get a reference to the form object first using _IEFormGetObjByName. Then you'll using this reference to retrieve the form element using _IEFormElementGetObjByName. Something like this:

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://twitter.com/login?username_or_email=xxxxx")

Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, 1)
Local $oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[password]")
_IEAction( $oField , "focus")

 

[AlienStar]

57 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

You are using the wrong command to retrieve an input element. You'll need to get a reference to the form object first using _IEFormGetObjByName. Then you'll using this reference to retrieve the form element using _IEFormElementGetObjByName. Something like this:

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://twitter.com/login?username_or_email=xxxxx")

Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, 1)
Local $oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[password]")
_IEAction( $oField , "focus")

 

my friend it doesn't work

[Danp2]

8 minutes ago, AlienStar said:

my friend it doesn't work

It doesn't focus the field as you desire. However, it does run without error, which is better than where you started.

You haven't explained your end goal. Are you just wanting to automate the Twitter login?

[Danp2]

Looks like I was grabbing the wrong form. This appears to work for me --

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://twitter.com/login")

Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, 2)
Local $oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[username_or_email]")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oField, "xxxxx")
$oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[password]")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oField, "yyyyy")
_IEFormSubmit($oForm)

 

[AlienStar]

3 minutes ago, Danp2 said:

Looks like I was grabbing the wrong form. This appears to work for me --

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://twitter.com/login")

Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, 2)
Local $oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[username_or_email]")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oField, "xxxxx")
$oField  = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "session[password]")
_IEFormElementSetValue($oField, "yyyyy")
_IEFormSubmit($oForm)

 

thanks so much it works fine