QuerySelector CSS selector changes according to variable value Topic is solved

[zayntheboss]

Hello

Could someone please help me? I'm trying to change the value of my CSS selector based on the value of the variable "num"

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msgbox % pwb.document.querySelector("#course-list-items > div:nth-child("num") > div > a").InnerText

but I keep getting an error that num" is an illegal character. Can someone please help?!

[A_AhkUser]

Just as in the theory of formal languages the dot (.) is used to concatenate subsets of charactersin ahk.
The dot operator is a binary operator and to distinguish it from the object access (ibid.) one (e.g. document.title), there must be at least one space on each side of the period:

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a . b

where a and b should evaluate to strings. In an sub-expression (like a function parameter), literal strings enclosed in double quotes automatically evaluate to strings - as you already correctly done in your example.
The following should work:

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msgbox % pwb.document.querySelector("#course-list-items > div:nth-child(" . num . ") > div > a").InnerText

[EDIT] 1000th post

[swagfag]

at least 1 space(2, on either side, being recommended) is required after num for this to parse correctly, ie ...th-child("num ") > di...
or be explicit and use dot concatenation