I am trying to select the value from a dropdown box using vba, the code block for the dropdown box is as follows
<input type="text" id="form_autocomplete_input-1542902425322" list="form_autocomplete_suggestions-1542902425322" placeholder="Search keyword or select filter" role="combobox" aria-expanded="false" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" aria-autocomplete="list" aria-owns="form_autocomplete_suggestions-1542902425322 form_autocomplete_selection-1542902425322">
If the value of form_autocomplete_suggestions-1542902425322 was static I would use .Document.getElementById("form_autocomplete_suggestions-1542902425322").Value = "Role: Student" however this seems to be a randomly generated numerical value.
I have had a look and it seems I cannot simply add a wildcard in such as .Document.getElementById("form_autocomplete_suggestions-*").Value = "Role: Student"
And as its randomly generated and such a long number it cannot loop through an array of values. so I am unsure on how to solve this issue.
You can use css attribute equals value selector syntax with the ^ operator to say starts with a certain substring. You could also use * instead, which means contains.
[id^='form_autocomplete_input-']
VBA:
ie.document.querySelector("[id^='form_autocomplete_input-']")
You might also use:
[placeholder='Search keyword or select filter']
Which would be:
ie.document.querySelector("[placeholder='Search keyword or select filter']")
As you indicate this needs to be selected you may need:
ie.document.querySelector("[id^='form_autocomplete_input-']").Selected = True
Reference:
CSS attribute selectors
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Web page has the following HTML without an ID - how do I set the value of the form?
<input name="loanxFindBorrower" onkeypress="if((window.event&&window.event.keyCode==13) ||
(event.which&&event.which==13 )){ findByBorrowerAction()}" type="text" size="25" value="">
I've tried
IE.Document.getElementByTagName("loanxFindBorrower").Value = "New Value"
Aswell as
IE.Document.getElementByTagName("loanxFindBorrower").Focus
IE.Document.getElementByTagName("loanxFindBorrower").Value = "NewValue"
Any help would be much appreciated
You should use getElementsByName() to get the element. It returns a collection, you'll need to specify the index to get the element you want.
For example, if it's the first element with name "loanxFindBorrower" in the page, the index is 0:
IE.Document.getElementsByName("loanxFindBorrower")(0).Value = "New Value"
How do I check the table checkbox?
I tried clicking.
ie.Document.getElementsByClassName("x-grid3-hd-checker").Checked = True
<div class="x-grid3-hd-inner x-grid3-hd-checker x-grid3-hd-checker-on" unselectable="on" style="">
<a class="x-grid3-hd-btn" href="#"></a>
<div class="x-grid3-hd-checker"> </div>
<img class="x-grid3-sort-icon" src="/javascript/extjs/resources/images/default/s.gif">
</div>
I can't see a checkbox in the HTML code. But you use getElementsByClassName() in a wrong way for your case. getElementsByClassName() generates a node collection. If you need a specific node, you must get it by it's index in the node collection. First element has index 0.
Please note that the div tag with the CSS class class="x-grid3-hd-inner x-grid3-hd-checker x-grid3-hd-checker-on " is also included in the Node Collection, because a part of the class identifier is identical to "x-grid3-hd-checker ". [Edit: I'm not realy sure if the part must maybe stand at the begin of the identifier]
If you want to check this:
<div class="x-grid3-hd-checker"> </div>
Your code needs the second index of the node collection:
ie.Document.getElementsByClassName("x-grid3-hd-checker")(1).Checked = True
But if there are more tags with the class name "x-grid3-hd-checker" the above line don't work. I can't say anymore until you don't post more HTML and VBA code. The best would be a link to the site.
I am working on automating a task. I want to click a Save button on a web form using VBA, but it's not working:
<input name="save" title="Save" class="btn" type="submit" value=" Save ">
<input name="save" tabindex="79" title="Save" class="btn" type="submit" value=" Save ">
I've tried ie.Document.all("save").Click, but it doesn't seem to work. What method do I need to click the button?
You can try going through all your "btn" class collection, and click the one with your save value:
Dim btnClassColl As Object, btn As Object
Set btnClassColl = ie.document.getElementsByClassName("btn")
For Each btn In btnClassColl
If btn.Value Like "*save*" Then
btn.Click
Exit For
End If
Next
Also: make sure that your web page has FULLY loaded before trying to automate anything.
Edit
In response to the comment:
This code is neither giving error nor its clicking on btn. Can this be because there are two buttons on web page with same name and function?
An alternative solution would be that if you know the index number of the collection item, you can simply use that index number and not loop at all. In this case, your index # is 1 (remember: Base 0).
Try this alternative:
Dim btn As Object
ie.document.getElementsByName("save")(1) '1 actually means #2 in index
I have ran into a particularly strange problem when implementing a RichFaces tool tip component. In my project I have a table that displays a list of Strings that are entered by the user, and I want there to be a pop-up of additional information when a user mouses over the strings in the list.
One of the requirements is that any string that is more than one word must contain double quotes "" when input by the user--e.g. a single word would be input as Java vs. a phrase "Java is cool".
So, I added a <rich:toolTip> to render additional info if it exists--and it works, except for strings that contain double-quotes. For example (as it's displayed in the table) "sample string" will not show additional information on mouseover.
My JSF code is simply:
<h:outputText id="keywordText" value="#{keywordData.keyword}"/>
<rich:toolTip for="keywordText" rendered="#{keywordData.comments != null}" value="#{keywordData.comments}"/>
Like I said, this works for words/strings that do not contain quotes. I am wondering if there is a workaround within JSF/RichFaces I can use in order to get this to work properly with a string that contains quotes. Or perhaps some assistance in writing a custom JavaScript function that forces or "tricks" RichFaces into handling quotation marks in a string correctly?
Thanks for any help in advance!
Edit: I am using RichFaces 3.3.3
In the page source, for the string "Testing Quotes" (does not work) I found this:
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":keywordText">"Testing Quotes"</span>
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":j_id159" class="rich-tool-tip " style="z-index:99; ">
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":j_id159content">
<p>This comment should display</p>
</span>
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":j_id159script" style="display:none">
<script id="scriptj_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:" quotes":j_id159"="" testing="" type="text/javascript">
new ToolTip("j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":j_id159","j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":keywordText",{'showEvent':'mouseover'} );
</script>
</span>
You can see that the quotations in the string itself (which appears to supposed to be part of the id attribute) are being misinterpreted in the new ToolTip parameters. And for a string testkeywordawesome without quotes you can see it works (because it does not contain quotes):
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:keywordText">testkeywordawesome</span>
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:j_id159" class="rich-tool-tip " style="z-index: 99; visibility: hidden; display: none; left: 63.7833px; top: 210.75px;">
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:j_id159content">
<p>the best comment in the world</p>
</span>
<span id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:j_id159script" style="display:none">
<script id="scriptj_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:j_id159" type="text/javascript">
new ToolTip("j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:j_id159","j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:testkeywordawesome:keywordText",{'showEvent':'mouseover'} );
</script>
</span>
Edit2: The tool tips exists in a rich:column, of which exists in a rich:extendedDataTable. Below are their code:
<rich:extendedDataTable value="#{keywordEntry.globalKeywordsDataModel}"
rendered="#{fn:length(keywordEntry.globalKeywords) gt 0}"
styleClass="removeEDTSortIcon removeEDTContextMenu"
id="keywordTable" rowClasses="row1, row2"
var="keywordData" rows="0" noDataLabel=" "
headerClass="#{displayHeader == null or displayHeader ? 'rich-table-header' : 'hide'}"
rowKeyVar="keywordRowIdx" enableContextMenu="false"
sortMode="#{globalKeywordListSort.multiSortEnabled ? 'multi' : 'single'}"
sortPriority="#{globalKeywordListSort.sortOrderList}"
width="#{eStaffUser.userKeywordAdmin ? '750px' : '750px'}"
height="#{((fn:length(keywordEntry.globalKeywords)*30 + 50) lt 480) ? (fn:length(keywordEntry.globalKeywords)*30 + 50) : 480}px"
>
and
<rich:column id="#{globalKeywordSortFieldEnumBean.KEYWORD}" selfSorted="false" width="#{eStaffUser.userKeywordAdmin ? '48%' : '52%'}" sortBy="#{keywordData.keyword}"
sortOrder="#{globalKeywordListSort.dataTableColumnSortClass[globalKeywordSortFieldEnumBean.KEYWORD].sortOrder}">
id="j_id138:j_id144:keywordTable:"Testing Quotes":keywordText"
This means that one of the parents of <h:outputText id="keywordText"> has its id defined by something that evaluates to "Testing Quotes", that's obviously bad.
OK, so the root of the issue was that the rich:extendedDataTable uses an ID supplied by each entry to generate a unique ID for each table row. So the problem ended up being in the underlying "Model Managed-Bean" that implemented a generic data entity interface, this interface defines a getEntityId() method and in this case, the "ID" returned was the keyword value itself, since there was no true (i.e., database) entity ID such as a primary key:
public class KeywordDataBean implements SummaryDataEntityIF<String>
The problem was resolved by changing the interface's implementation to Integer and returning the hash as the unique ID for each keyword object:
public class KeywordDataBean implements SummaryDataEntityIF<Integer>
This forced the html id generated by the rich:extendedDataTable to be a simple integer number instead of a (keyword) string containing quotes, allowing the rich:toolTip to work properly.
I have two input fields
input(ng-model='form.firstName', name='firstName', id='familyName')
and
input(ng-model='form.lastName', name='lastName')
I also have a textarea field
textarea(id='fieldInfo', ng-model='fieldInfo', name='fieldInfo' cols='15', rows='10')
I would like to change the text in the TextArea to "Please enter your first name" when the focus or cursor is in the First Name input and change it to "Please enter your last name" when the is on the last name inout and it should be able to toggle as the user switches focus from first name to last name and last name to first name.
Any assistance will be much appreciated.
Melroy
The ng-focus directive will not work for you if you are using one of the stable 1.0.x versions of AngularJS. However, I have created a working CodePen example of how you could do it without the ng-focus directive.
I created my own on-focus directive that evaluates an expression, which results in an update to the scope model being used by the textarea. I'm sure it could use some refinement, but the concept should still work for your application.
You can use the ngFocus directive if you are using angular 1.2.0.
In your controller:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);
myApp.controller('MyCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
$scope.text = "";
}]);
And in your view:
<input type="text" data-ng-model="form.name" ng-focus="text = 'Please enter your first name'" />
<input type="text" data-ng-model="form.last" ng-focus="text = 'Please enter your last name'" />
<textarea name="area" id="textarea" cols="30" rows="10"> {{ text }} </textarea>
You can check this fiddle
Edit: Wrong fiddle link