How to assign value to GetElementById("user-email").value Topic is solved

[thomastthai]

I would appreciate help to find out why the values assigned to these input elements aren't getting updated?

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ieVisible := True

ie := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.visible := ieVisible ; Show Internet Explorer window?
ie.ToolBar := false
ie.Navigate("https://cgcookie.com/login") 

; wait for the browser to load
while (ie.ReadyState != 4 or ie.Document.ReadyState != "complete" or ie.busy)
{
	sleep 100
}

ie.document.GetElementById("user-email").value := "me@myselfandi.com"
ie.document.GetElementById("user-password").value := "ABCDEF"
ie.document.GetElementsByClassName("btn btn-primary btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block")[0].click()

I can't tell if Javascript is controlling these elements that's preventing the injection of values.

Additionally, the .focus, .onchange(), and .fireEvent() don't seem to have an effect.

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ie.document.GetElementById("user-email").focus
ie.document.GetElementById("user-email").onchange()
;ie.document.GetElementById("user-email").fireEvent("onchange")

I get that I could use:

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sleep 1000
send me@myselfandi.com{Enter}
sleep 1000
send ABCDEF{Enter}

But that requires the browser to be visible and active. I would like to run this in the background.

Update 1:

I believe these input fields could be connected to some event handlers.

Update 2:

CGCookie Login Event Listeners.png (31.06 KiB) Viewed 1014 times

It looks like there are JQuery event listeners.

I also watched @Joe Glines video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vD_Pzy7AM ). I got a better understanding but not enough to solve this challenge.

[gregster]

No triggering of eventlisteners needed.
The problem is simply that you have typos in your IDs - like this, they can't be found.
That happens .

It should be user_email and user_password instead of user-email and user-password:

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ieVisible := True

ie := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.visible := ieVisible ; Show Internet Explorer window?
ie.ToolBar := false
ie.Navigate("https://cgcookie.com/login") 

; wait for the browser to load
while (ie.ReadyState != 4 or ie.Document.ReadyState != "complete" or ie.busy)
{
	sleep 100
}

ie.document.GetElementById("user_email").value := "me@myselfandi.com"
ie.document.GetElementById("user_password").value := "ABCDEF"
ie.document.GetElementsByClassName("btn btn-primary btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block")[0].click()

[thomastthai]

Thank you @gregster! It helps to have a fresh pair of eyes. I spent many hours double-checking typos and researching different options with event listeners. I can see how easy it was for me to overlook that typo though. Copying and pasting the id over from the web page would have been a way to avoid this type of mistake.

On the positive side, I now know more about event listeners!