[SOLVED] IE - element with an existing ID can't be found

[Seminko]

Strange thing. When I load a page in IE and inspect, the elements are clearly there but when I try to find them using _IEGetObjById or _IETagNameGetCollection or even using JS right in the IE console, the elements can't be found.

Have you guys even encoutered something similar?

Site's HTML

<div id="lastdays">
  <div class="radio">
    <span class="radio"><input id="lastdays_radio" type="radio" name="rangepanel_group" value="lastdays_radio"></span>
  </div>
  <div class="content">
    <label for="lastdays_radio">Za posledních</label>
    <label for="lastdays_radio"> </label>
    <input name="lastdays_days" type="text" value="1" maxlength="3" id="lastdays_days" class="text days" onclick="document.getElementById('lastdays_radio').checked=true;" onfocus="document.getElementById('lastdays_radio').checked=true;">
    <label for="lastdays_radio"> </label>
    <select name="lastdays_period" id="lastdays_period" class="combo" onclick="document.getElementById('lastdays_radio').checked=true;" onfocus="document.getElementById('lastdays_radio').checked=true;">
      <option value="D">dnů</option>
      <option value="W">týdnů</option>
      <option selected="selected" value="M">měsíců</option>
    </select>
  </div>
</div>

document.getElementById("lastdays_days"); //returns null in IE

 

Edited February 11, 2019 by Seminko

[Nine]

post your code

[Seminko]

It has nothing to do with my code. At least I don't see a reason why it would since the element cannot be found using IE's own console (but it is there in the explorer, both in IE and Chrome).

This is more of a general question.

Anyways, here's the code, just to be sure I'm not missing something:

Local $oIE = _IECreate($URL)

_IELoadWait($oIE)
Sleep(5000)
    
$ClickLastDays = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "lastdays_days")
If $ClickLastDays = 0 Then
    MsgBox(16, "Error", "Click error - lastdays_days")
    Exit
Else
    _IEAction($ClickLastDays, "click")
    If @error Then
        MsgBox(16, "Error", "Can't click $ClickLastDays")
        Exit
    EndIf
EndIf

Btw, when I'm logging into the page everything works fine, with other elements.

 

EDIT: based on my code, I get the first error: 'Click error - lastdays_days' - in other words, the element cannot be found

Edited February 10, 2019 by Seminko
grammar

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@Seminko

Because you shouldn't check the error in that way...

The function reference doesn't say that in case of failure, the function returns 0, but just that it sets the @error code to non-zero, so, try to remove that "bad" check and see if it works (as you are doing for _IEAction())

Edited February 10, 2019 by FrancescoDiMuro

[Seminko]

4 minutes ago, FrancescoDiMuro said:

@Seminko

Because you shouldn't check the error in that way...

The function reference doesn't say that in case of failure, the function returns 0, but just that it sets the @error code to non-zero, so, try to remove that "bad" check and see if it works (as you are doing for _IEAction())

Agreed, It works for all the other elements, though.

Anyways, just as I said in my initial post. The element cannot be found: "7 ($_IEStatus_NoMatch) - No Match"

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@Seminko

You could try to get the collection of all input tags and check their names

[Seminko]

Just now, FrancescoDiMuro said:

@Seminko

You could try to get the collection of all input tags and check their names

Done that. The element is not there.

This is what my question is about.

Can the element be "protected" in some way?

[Danp2]

Have you checked to see the the site uses frames?

[Seminko]

18 hours ago, Danp2 said:

Have you checked to see the the site uses frames?

You were right. In IE the site creates a frame.

<iframe height="894" class="ombframe" id="ombframe" src="/csite/frames.aspx?module=account_oper_list" style="width: 100%; padding-top: 25px; min-height: 600px;" sandbox="allow-modals allow-top-navigation allow-popups allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>

TIL

 

Solved, thanks @Danp2

Edited February 11, 2019 by Seminko