Newbie question on document model
I'm trying to automate the navigation of a web page, and I'm having to learn
as I go so if you tell me I'm doing it the hard way, believe me I will
listen. My VBA program is picking out items by name, selecting options from
drop-down lists as it goes, and next I want to push a button.
Now, I can see the button right in front of me on the web page, plainly
labeled "SUBMIT". On mouseover, MSIE tells me it will link not to a URL but
to "javascript:checkAvailability();". But when I browse manually through
Document.All for this button, so that I can tell my program how to refer to
it, I don't see it at anywhere. In fact the .All collection ends after the
256th item, a suspicious coincidence although nothing in the documentation
that I can find hints that the .All collection should be so limited. The
256th item is several tags, above the button, so the impression I get is that
.All simply doesn't go down all the way through the HTML definition.
So is there something I don't know about the document model that would tell
me where this button is defined? What am I missing?
Feel free to contact me at rhbridg @ attglobal.net, if you prefer.
date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:22:00 -0700
author: Bob Bridges