Set value using clipboard text, PageInst.Evaluate(document.getElementById) Topic is solved

[siomosp]

Hello
using Chrome.ahk I can set an element value (text field), with this code

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PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value='some_value';")

I want the value to be a text copied manually
This code is not working, any ideas why

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PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value=clipboard;")

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#Include C:\Permament\ahk\Chrome.ahk_v1.2\Chrome.ahk
F1::
#SingleInstance, Force
; clipboard already contains a copied text

PageInst := Chrome.GetPage()
;PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value='some_value';")
PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value= clipboard;")

[boiler]

You haven’t done anything to tell it that you want the value of the variable Clipboard instead of the text “clipboard”. To correct only the AHK syntax of what you have would be like this:

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PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value=" Clipboard ";")

However, the javascript syntax that you are creating with this string would only be correct if the text in the clipboard already contained single quotes around it, such as 'some_text'. But it probably doesn’t, and actually is more like some_text, so your code needs to add them and it would be like this:

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PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value='" Clipboard "';")

[siomosp]

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PageInst.Evaluate("document.getElementById('delivery_message').value='" Clipboard "';")

This code works like a charm
Thank you!