Web Scraping - find element to click

[sumdumgai]

Hello. I'm trying to automate a report that starts with opening a web page. Using IE, I'm so far able to sign on and do several 'clicks' to get to the page displayed. The page displayed has an image/icon (not a button) on it that I then need to click to get to the next page. I've tried everything I can think of but I cannot find the clickable element on this last page displayed. As a note, I believe the last click I successfully did caused a redirection to another web site (my logon was automatic to this website) that contains the page displayed. I've attached the html that appears when I inspect the image/icon that I want to click on the last page displayed.

I want to be able to click on the image/icon that contains the text 'My Reports'.
I hope I have explained this enough and hope someone can help.
Thanks.

[sumdumgai]

Anybody? I'm kind of stuck here. Thanks.

[Marc L]

Hi,

as without any URL neither a good enough explanation with details and neither the entire webpage code
so this is just some mind readers challenge …

[Marc L]

If at least you have shared your code attempt …

So in your code, you can try to check all elements with the same class for the one containing the expected text
then once found you can click on its parent.

[sumdumgai]

Thanks. Here's example of code I'm using. I've tried different classNames but they are never found in the script. I've also attached portion of page source that I think applies. I want to click on the item that contains the text 'My Reports'.

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[Marc L]

Did you try the class of the element to click ?

Or the class of its parent as this class seems unique in your part of codepage ?

[sumdumgai]

I've tried a lot, but I just don't yet understand script constructs. Trying to figure out 'byclassname', tagname', id, span, etc. Can you suggest something I might try given the page source provided? Thanks.

[Marc L]

A lot means nothing on my side as I won't guess anything !

So the first class to try is obviously 'mstrLink' according to your poor page source …

[sumdumgai]

Tried that one and others that seemed likely, but none found. Is there a way, with VBA, to Debug.Print every 'ClassName' in the page source, and their inner text, if any? When I finally land on this page, I think I've been redirected to another web site using the same login credentials as the original login. Could that be the reason I'm not finding any 'ClassName's? Thanks.

[Marc L]

Two points :

1. synchronization issue : the webpage is not fully loaded when the code attempts to reach elements by class
   so you must add a pause in the code to be sure all elements are enable …
   
   
2. The webpage is more complex than the poor part you have shared so impossible mission to find out any way …