Internet Explorer Navigation

[thisisgerald]

Hi experts,

It's my first time to create a module that will control/navigate an IE.
Is there any tutorials or examples that I can read/study?

For example. I want to automatically input my username and password in a mail account.
I have done it but I want a data validation, how can I determine if the credentials entered were correct?

Thanks in advance!

[Kyle123]

It's all a bit of trial and error. You need to try it manually first, look for a what is returned when you enter data incorrectly, then search for it in IE after you've sent the data.

FWIW Web based email probably isn't the best place to start. Web based email clients like googlemail are incredibly complex, start on easier sites first. Also, learn the DOM http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/default.asp and HTML http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Everything should be fairly straightforward then, the difficult part is always working out how the website works

[thisisgerald]

Thanks kyle!

This would be a good start.

In this:

It's all a bit of trial and error. You need to try it manually first, look for a what is returned when you enter data incorrectly, then search for it in IE after you've sent the data.

Do you mean that I should view the page source then compare it to the original one?

[Kyle123]

Erm, yes and no, not usually the source. It comes back to an email site not being the best thing to learn on since they tend to be fancy and nice to use.

The source of the page (right click - > View source) is what loads when the page loads, this may however not be the same as the actual page that you're using since JavaScript changes the DOM/HTML of the page once the page has loaded - more data can also be loaded from the server which is commonly what happens when logging in to an email website, the page sends a request to the server and gets the response without reloading the page you are on - This technique is called Ajax and is increasingly more common as it provides a better user experience. These changes aren't reflected in the source of the page, to see them you need to use developer tools, F12 in Chrome and IE to inspect the page as it is, rather than the source of the page when it was loaded.

So you'd need to hit F12 then in the developer tools find the text which indicates the values are incorrect then check for this in your VBA code.

[thisisgerald]

Hi Kyle,

I have experienced coding in PHP before but not that broad and I haven't broaden it. How can I determine in the developer tools which text indicates incorrect values?

[Kyle123]

No Idea I don't know which website you're using.

I suggest you use chrome, right click on the element and hit inspect element

[Norie]

Just look out for things like 'incorrect password or username'.

[thisisgerald]

My sample site will be gmail.com and I'll be using IE.

[thisisgerald]

Just look out for things like 'incorrect password or username'.

That would be on the developer tool of the browser?

[Kyle123]

Yes, on chrome, hover over it, rightclick, inspect element

[thisisgerald]

Hi Kyle,

I have experienced coding in PHP before but not that broad and I haven't broaden it. How can I determine in the developer tools which text indicates incorrect values?

I now know what is inspect element. But I guess I've asked the wrong question above. What I mean is how can I determine if the login was successful or not? Does it have to do something about checking its source code?

[Kyle123]

You can check the location of the page, I believe the location changes when there is a successful logon

[thisisgerald]

Is the location of the page is the URL?
Do you have a sample code on how to check?

[Kyle123]

Yes, the URL

No, but have a look through the Internet Explorer Object, I'm pretty sure there's a location property it might be called LocationURL or something similar

[Norie]

If I login to GMail with the incorrect details the browser's URL changes to https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth.

You can get the URL of the current IE document using the URL property.

[thisisgerald]

@kyle
That would help a lot. I'll just have to be familiar with the properties.

Thanks!

@norie
Thanks too!

[thisisgerald]

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[thisisgerald]

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thanks!

Managed to do it. Used navigate anyway.