.document.getElementsbyname not recognising name

Hi all,

I am having trouble with a macro that logs onto a weather information website and adds some weather codes. The demo file I have below opens a website, logs in and then enters weather codes and submits the entry, works fine to here. Next it opens a new tab, navigates to a new page on the same site and tries to enter some of the codes again however the element name is not being recognised. I tried trouble shooting by finding the ID of the element I want and that works fine however I need the name so I can enter the values that I need and then submit.

This is the code I am using, I have placed some comments around the problem code near the end:

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See the attached file for a working demo if you need it.

Can anyone see any obvious errors that I may be missing?

Thanks for you assistance.
Marcus

Hi there WBD,

I have place your code into the program and still no joy.

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this is still coming up as nothing hence the weather codes are not being entered. Works well on the first tab but for some reason not on the second.

Marcus

Hi Leith,

That is a neat solution!

I have solved my issue though with a slight workaround in that instead of trying to add information and submit on a second tab I am just opening up a second instance if IE and doing it their, this seems to work fine. It is also handy that IE can open in the background on this particular app that I am developing as the information is not necessarily used straight away and it is probably referred to more than once during the planning process. With the userform not much else can be done while it is displayed.

Thanks for you help, I will definitely keep that one in the bank for future projects.

Cheers,
Marcus