VB.NET - Click Submit Button on Webbrowser page

Question

I have a html page open on my webbrowser object, I can enter username and password okay, but I'm stuck and don't know how to submit the info. Here is the html code for the username/password submit:

<div id="signin">
    <h2 class="ir">
        <em></em>Sign in</h2>
    <form action="/login/" method="post">
    <input id="login-url" name="login[url]" 
           type="hidden" value="/characters/" />
    <input id="login-urlError" name="login[urlError]" 
           type="hidden" value="/account/?error=1" />
    <fieldset>
        <ul>
            <li class="row">
                <label for="login-username">
                    Username <span class="req">*</span>
                </label>
                <input id="login-username" name="login[username]"
                        type="text" class="TextBox" value="" />
            </li>
            <li class="row">
                <label for="login-password">
                    Password <span class="req">*</span>
                </label>
                <input id="login-password" name="login[password]"
                       type="password" class="TextBox Password" value="" />
            </li>
            <li class="but">
                <input name="login[submit]" type="image" 
                       class="img" alt="Login &raquo;" 
                       src="/_pub/img/hp/but-login.png" />
            </li>
        </ul>
    </fieldset>
    </form>
    <p>
        <a href="/account/password-reset/">ACCOUNT TROUBLE?</a>
    </p>
</div>

I use the following to enter the username and password:

WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("login-username").SetAttribute("Value", Information.txtuser.Text)
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("login-password").SetAttribute("Value", Information.txtpass.Text)

What should I use to submit the info now? I tried getting the element by name and kept getting index out of range error, index should be -1 or 0, but it was.

Your help would be greatly appriecated!!

Answer 1

  Private Sub bt_continue_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles bt_continue.Click
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("phoneNumber").Focus()
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("phoneNumber").InnerText = tb_phonenumber.Text
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("reservationCode").Focus()
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("reservationCode").InnerText = tb_regcode.Text
    'SendKeys.Send("{Tab}{Tab}{Tab}")
    'For Each Element As HtmlElement In wb_apple.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a")
    'If Element.OuterHtml.Contains("iReserve.sms.submitButtonLabel") Then
    'Element.InvokeMember("click")
    'Exit For
    ' End If
    'Next Element
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("smsPageForm").Focus()
    wb_apple.Document.GetElementById("smsPageForm").InvokeMember("submit")

End Sub

Answer 2

WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById(*element id string*).InvokeMember("submit")

Answer 3

This seems to work easily.

Public Function LoginAsTech(ByVal UserID As String, ByVal Pass As String) As Boolean
        Dim MyDoc As New mshtml.HTMLDocument
        Dim DocElements As mshtml.IHTMLElementCollection = Nothing
        Dim LoginForm As mshtml.HTMLFormElement = Nothing

        ASPComplete = 0
        WB.Navigate(VitecLoginURI)
        BrowserLoop()

        MyDoc = WB.Document.DomDocument
        DocElements = MyDoc.getElementsByTagName("input")
        For Each i As mshtml.IHTMLElement In DocElements

            Select Case i.name
                Case "seLogin$UserName"
                    i.value = UserID
                Case "seLogin$Password"
                    i.value = Pass
                Case Else
                    Exit Select
            End Select

            frmServiceCalls.txtOut.Text &= i.name & " : " & i.value & " : " & i.type & vbCrLf
        Next i

        'Old Method for Clicking submit
        'WB.Document.Forms("form1").InvokeMember("submit")


        'Better Method to click submit
        LoginForm = MyDoc.forms.item("form1")
        LoginForm.item("seLogin$LoginButton").click()
        ASPComplete = 0
        BrowserLoop()



        MyDoc= WB.Document.DomDocument
        DocElements = MyDoc.getElementsByTagName("input")
        For Each j As mshtml.IHTMLElement In DocElements
            frmServiceCalls.txtOut.Text &= j.name & " : " & j.value & " : " & j.type & vbCrLf

        Next j

        frmServiceCalls.txtOut.Text &= vbCrLf & vbCrLf & WB.Url.AbsoluteUri & vbCrLf
        Return 1
End Function

Answer 4

I am quite benefited with http://stackoverflow.com. I was wandering from hours for automatic login and submit from vb application to another web site. Due to help of this site I am able to complete my task

I have to login following web php page.

<HTML>

<body>
<div align="center"><img src="banner.png" height="80px" /></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
            $("#login").validate();
            $("#login_container").css({'position': 'absolute', 
                'top' : (($(window).height()/2) - $("#login_container").height()/2)+'px'});
            $("#login_container").css({'left' : (($(window).width()/2) - $("#login_container").width()/2)+'px'});
        });
    </script>
    <div id="login_container">
        <form name="login" id="login" action="?q=login" method="post">
        <table>
          <tr><td>Username</td><td><input type="text" name="name" class="required"/></td></tr>
          <tr><td>Password</td><td><input type="password" name="password" class="required"/></td></tr>
          <tr><td></td><td><input type="submit" name="subimt" value="Login" /></td></tr>
        </table>
        </form>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

For automatic Login and clicking I wrote following VB.Net Code. In form1 I placed a button and a Webbrowser control

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Windows.Forms



Public Class Form1


    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click


        WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://xyz.com")



    End Sub

    Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted
        WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("name").SetAttribute("Value", "bharatlal")
        WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("password").SetAttribute("Value", "mahato")
        WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("subimt").Focus()
        WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("subimt").InvokeMember("click")
    End Sub
End Class

Answer 5

I searched for any solution to not use the "SendKeys(CHR(13))" methode I ever used to submit stuff in Browser. In this case I was happy to see your

InvokeMember("click")

but dont know why you know that you have to write "click" in there. Anyway Thanks

Answer 6

You could try giving an ID to the form, in order to get ahold of it, and then call form.submit() from a Javascript call.