VBA Clicking Button on IE - excel

Question

I use VBA a lot, but I'm still a beginner when it comes to IE automation.
I need to create a code to click a "button" on a specific website for my company.
This button opens up a small menu where I need to select a few things (I'll deal with that later I guess). Thing is, the button doesn't show any ID or name, it's a span and I'm having trouble making it click it.
Below is the HTML when I press F12 and inspect the element over the button:
<span class="search_for_watchers">
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</span>
I've tried so many suggestions that I found over the internet.. I've tried getting the element by ID, name, class name, etc, but no success.
Below is the code I'm using:
Sub Automate_IE_Load_Page()
Dim i As Long
Dim URL As String
Dim ie As Object
Dim objElement As Object
Dim objCollection As Object
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.Visible = True
URL = "Examplesite.com"
ie.Navigate URL
Application.StatusBar = URL & " is loading. Please wait..."
Do While ie.READYSTATE = 4: DoEvents: Loop
Do Until ie.READYSTATE = 4: DoEvents: Loop
Application.StatusBar = URL & " Loaded"
botao = ie.Document.getElementsByClassName("search_for_watchers")
botao.Click
End Sub
It doesn't show any error.. it just doesn't open up the sub-menu I want to, therefore the button isn't clicked.
Thanks!

Answer 1

getElementsByClassName is plural; i.e. it represents a collection. The following represents the first object with this class then clicks the first anchor tag within.
ie.Document.getElementsByClassName("search_for_watchers")(0).getElementsByTagName("a")(0).click
If you want to assign an object var to the element and then use the var to click, you need to Set the var.

Answer 2

You enter endless loop here twice:
Do While ie.READYSTATE = 4: DoEvents: Loop
Do Until ie.READYSTATE = 4: DoEvents: Loop
E.g., it looks like this:
Do While ie.READYSTATE = 4
DoEvents
Loop
but the : are instead of a new line in VBA.
Make sure to change a bit the loop, thus something like this:
Do While NOT ie.READYSTATE = 4: DoEvents: Loop

Answer 3

You could also loop through the tags and find the one you want to click, like so:
Set tags = ie.document.getElementsByTagName("a")
For Each tagx In tags
If tagx.innerText = "Procurar por outros observadores para adiconar" Then
tagx.Click
Exit For
End If
Next