Interacting with IE with COM Interface and Java Script

[Blackholyman]

Why i asked for all your code was that in one of your images you had sleep between the navigate and the element interaction but in your 4 lines of code you do not

after a navigate event you have to wait for the document your navigating to load before trying to interact with any elements on the new document

so your 4 lines have at least that issue...

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ie := ComObjCreate(("InternetExplorer.Application"))
ie.Visible:=True
ie.Navigate("https://xxxx/xxxx/man.htm")
while ie.readyState != 4 || ie.document.readyState != "complete" || ie.busy)
	sleep 100
; or simply use a hard coded sleep of 5000 if you always know that 5 seconds is what it takes
ie.document.frames["application"].getElementById("USERNAME.DUMMY.DUMMY").value := "Mary"

also the frame element will most likely have it own .document

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ie.document.parentWindow.frames["application"].document.

[aircooled]

Why i asked for all your code was that in one of your images you had sleep between the navigate and the element interaction but in your 4 lines of code you do not

after a navigate event you have to wait for the document your navigating to load before trying to interact with any elements on the new document

so your 4 lines have at least that issue...

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ie := ComObjCreate(("InternetExplorer.Application"))
ie.Visible:=True
ie.Navigate("https://xxxx/xxxx/man.htm")
while ie.readyState != 4 || ie.document.readyState != "complete" || ie.busy)
	sleep 100
; or simply use a hard coded sleep of 5000 if you always know that 5 seconds is what it takes
ie.document.frames["application"].getElementById("USERNAME.DUMMY.DUMMY").value := "Mary"

also the frame element will most likely have it own .document

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ie.document.parentWindow.frames["application"].document.

You are right I didn't put the Delay's but I had a lot and experimented with long waiting times, the problem was not that see below. Thanks anyway.

[aircooled]

As gregster pointed out this solved the problem:

ie.document.getElementById("application").contentDocument.getElementById("USERNAME.DUMMY.DUMMY").value := "Mary"

[gregster]

Good to know

[Blackholyman]

What part of what i said was not part of fixing your issue?

You can not interact with the element without waiting -> not doing so will make your code fail

You need to act on the frame’s document -> in your case .contentDocument worked

But great you made it work...