input type "hidden" onclick "document.text.submit ...for web login and parsing

Sorry had to take out some chrs to post...This is what the subject should be: <input type="hidden" & onclick="document.text.submit() ...for web login and parsing

Hi,
The below code is in a command button (building a web parser for secured site personal use).
If the button is pressed once then the code makes it pass the login page but gets stuck at the "Launch The Page" value.
If the button is pressed a second time, then it appears the launch page is clicked and then the "hidden" page click fires.

How to handle this please?

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Thanks Norie.

The CommandButton1 is on a userform in excel. That runs code that opens IE up to but does not click the Launch page.

If I hover mouse over the web-page-button it shows http://somewebsite.com/account/login/mac_open.php

Now mousing back and clicking on CommandButton1 again it then appears to click the Launch page AND opens a another page.
(I can not tell what this page is called (or don't know where to look) when looking in the DOM Explorer (inspect element)).

A few seconds later the final page loads. It's from this page I will yet click again and then go to parsing.



Sorry it's a secure subscription site so giving the real url does not help.

ah, sorry.

Does the code you posted not do what you want it to?

Good question Norie! Should have asked that myself!

Yes and no.
Yes if I click the CommandButton1 twice, ultimately it does open the next page I need to get to. There is one more page to get to before I can begin parsing.

No in the sense that "why does it not click the page in one click?" that's what the code says it should do.


Ok considered this resolved, from my perspective, based on this:

(1) It's the nature of the CommandButton1 to have this characteristic.
(2) I entered the code into a Module, click Run in the editor and it runs all the way through the code and clicks the "Launch Page".

Just starting this scraping project so I may be back with other questions and will post accordingly! (after searching)