Using VBA to Select Dropdown Item

Howdy all!

Well, I've been able to do some pretty awesome things with VBA (self taught...well, Google taught anyway), but I might have just come across something it can't do. I hope I am wrong, though.

I use an Excel spreadsheet to populate some web forms for work, and it usually works really well. I have gotten to know the Locals window fairly good in the VB editor. I can usually populate a field with a someobjname.Item(xx).Value = blahblah type of code. But now I have hit a snag. I have a new form I am filling out that I think uses Jquery which I know nothing about. There is a dropdown menu that when you select an item, it triggers a function that changes some stuff on the screen....problem is, I can't find the function anywhere in the source code of the web page. I can manually populate the textbox with what I want, but that doesn't trigger the function.

My limited understanding of Jquery is that there is some separate file that contains a library of functions that can be called by a web page. Is there some way I can find out the name of that file, copy the function into my code and have VBA execute the function? Is it possible to trigger it within its own library? I don't really want to have to learn everything about Jquery right now to get this one thing done.

I may just have to stop the code in a few places to manually select these dropdowns, and then continue the code to populate the other fields that don't have it.

Just kind of fishing for information right now. I'm not really even sure exactly what question to ask.

Thanks,
Ric