Greetings all,
I have a weird situation. I need the ability to load a particular HTML DOM path from a config file and be able to reference it once I have a selected web page displayed within the webbrowser control. For example:
The dom path to a select box on a webpage would be something like:
wb.Document.frames.middle.Document.frames.inputscreen.Document.Forms.datacollectionform.selectboxname
The problem arises that in similar websites, the name of the particular form element (in this case "selectboxname") sometimes changes to something like "selectboxname1" or whatever. Finding the name of this select box is pretty easy, so, I figured that putting this into a config file and reading it in would be pretty easy. Unfortunately, I need to make a variable (object reference) with a reference to that particular type of form element.
IE: Public SELECTBOXPATH As ??HTMLSelectElement??
The problems are as follows:
1) I don't know what element to set the SELECTBOXPATH to. I'm guessing at HTMLSelectElement.
2) I don't know how to assign the dom path to the SELECTBOXPATH so that inside my code I can reference that path using the SELECTBOXPATH, something like:
wb.SELECTBOXPATH.options.length
instead of having to hardcode something like:
wb.Document.frames.middle.Document.frames.inputscreen.Document.Forms.datacollectionform.selectboxname.options.length
If anyone can please help, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Pan
I have a weird situation. I need the ability to load a particular HTML DOM path from a config file and be able to reference it once I have a selected web page displayed within the webbrowser control. For example:
The dom path to a select box on a webpage would be something like:
wb.Document.frames.middle.Document.frames.inputscreen.Document.Forms.datacollectionform.selectboxname
The problem arises that in similar websites, the name of the particular form element (in this case "selectboxname") sometimes changes to something like "selectboxname1" or whatever. Finding the name of this select box is pretty easy, so, I figured that putting this into a config file and reading it in would be pretty easy. Unfortunately, I need to make a variable (object reference) with a reference to that particular type of form element.
IE: Public SELECTBOXPATH As ??HTMLSelectElement??
The problems are as follows:
1) I don't know what element to set the SELECTBOXPATH to. I'm guessing at HTMLSelectElement.
2) I don't know how to assign the dom path to the SELECTBOXPATH so that inside my code I can reference that path using the SELECTBOXPATH, something like:
wb.SELECTBOXPATH.options.length
instead of having to hardcode something like:
wb.Document.frames.middle.Document.frames.inputscreen.Document.Forms.datacollectionform.selectboxname.options.length
If anyone can please help, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Pan
