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ottenm · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Is there a way to make an HTML control the target of a click, rather than using X,Y coordinates? I have a sequence I recorded with ASW where I need to click on a particular hyperlink, but it's X,Y location is not always identical. The target of the link is always different, but the display text is always identical.

Thanks for any help.

Mike

PurloinedHeart · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Canada

Using tab to cycle through links might work.

jaco0646 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 666 Location: MN, USA

Download the page (UrlDownloadToFile). Parse it for the link, and Run it. Then you don't need a click.

If you search the forum for parsing HTML, there are many examples.
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ottenm · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Good suggestions, but no luck with either one.

I'm trying to automate a few step through a web app and it turns out the start page is just different enough from time to time, to thwart tabbing to the hyper link. And downloading and parsing the html is a mess because I'm paging through forms (with state variables), not just simple hyperlinks.

The labels on the links are always identical, if there were some way to navigate by control label.

Does anyone know another hotkey or scripting tool that might have something like this?

Thanks-

TheIrishThug · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 381

You can try looking into Javescript injection.

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

Screen shot and Image search work

ottenm · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

Hasso · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 158 Location: Germany

ottenm,

could you provide us with the URL of that page? I think a JavaScript solution might be the best way.
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Oberon · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 453

You can debug the JavaScript to see what's being posted and where. This way you can UrlDownloadToFile or automate with cURL.

halweg · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 103 Location: Germany, Dresden

Why not a text search? Here that works for IE6:

ottenm · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

That's awesome halweg, never thought of it but it works perfectly. I really wanted to stay out of parsing and automating the requests due to a lot of hidden/state variables in the forms. Definitely doable, but a lot of overhead in this instance.

Thanks for all the suggestions from others, extremely helpful.

Mike

tank · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 1033

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30599
also see this
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