Cannot click an html button without name or id tag

[dsainato]

I am trying to click a button using DOM on an HTML form where the button has neither an ID nor a name tag. I have tried various methods like document.getElementByID, document.getElementsByName, document.getElementsByTagName, using x and y coordinates, etc. Nothing seems to work. Other buttons with names or an ID are no problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The HTML code that I am interrogating looks like this :

<tr>
<td align="center">
<a href="UserIDCtlr?action=get&USERID=xxxx">&nbsp;SELECT&nbsp;</a></td>
<td align="left"> xxxx</td>
<td align="left">smith</td>
<td align="left">john</td>
<td align="left">ATTP </td>
</tr>

The button I am trying to click is the hyperlink (href=) above. All other buttons and elements are not an issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[Xtra]

<a> is the tag for links.
getElementsByTagName
Example:

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document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0]

or
querySelector
Example:

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document.querySelector("body > a")

HTH

[tank]

maybe it is within a frame?

[dsainato]

Xtra and tank, thank you for the help. It's not in a frame. I had tried the getElementsByTagName earlier and I also gave the document.querySelector a try but neither seem to work. I did find this bit of code in a blog and included it in my script to identify the occurrence of <td> that I could possibly try to use:

Msgbox, About to Hit the Select Button process

cells := ExpSecSession.document.getElementsByTagName("td")
loop % cells.length
{
text := cells[ A_Index-1 ].innerText
if text <>
MsgBox % "td (" A_Index-1 ")`n" text
}

Then I tried this code:
ExpSecSession.document.getElementsByTagName( "td")[11].focus().Click()

But that still didn't do the trick. I'll keep digging.

[dsainato]

Problem Solved! I found the following code on a post and incorporated into my script, and it worked!!!


divs := ExpSecSession.document.getElementsByTagName("tr")

loop % divs.length
{
innerText := divs[A_Index-1].innerText
If instr(innerText, "SELECT")
{
divs[A_Index-1].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].click()
break
}
}

Thanks for the help all