_IEAction($element, "focus") does not work in IE9

[anonymous]

Please try the following script to reproduce (extracted from the help file)

#include <IE.au3>
 
$oIE = _IE_Example("form")
 $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "ExampleForm")
 Local $oInputFile = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "fileExample")
 
; Assign input focus to the field and then send the text string
 _IEAction($oInputFile, "focus")
 Send("C:\myfile.txt")

As you can see the example fails in IE9, but it works in IE8

I tried version 3.3.6.1 and beta 3.3.7.14

[Valik]

This is not an AutoIt bug, this is a change in behavior for IE9. If an about URI (for example: about:blank) is displayed then IE9 tries to be "helpful" and gives focus to the URL bar. The fix for this is simple:

Local $oDocument = $oIE.document
_IEAction($oDocument, "focus")

This will give focus to the document and take it away from the browser frame. You can then follow that up with a call to _IEAction(..., "focus") to set focus to your desired element.

I will update the documentation example(s) to do this automatically. When this ticket is marked as "fixed" it will be the documentation that is fixed since this is not an AutoIt bug.

[Valik]

Fixed by revision [6250] in version: 3.3.7.18