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Click on Hyperlink for TD Object

Hi all

I want to click on a hyperlink on a webpage using VBA that I have found using the below method:

 Set trs = ie.document.getElementsByTagName("tr")

For Each trObj In trs


    Set tds = trObj.getElementsByTagName("td")

    For Each tdObj In tds


           If tdObj.className = "btn_container" And tdObj.innerText = "Reinstate Award" Then

              tdObj.Click

            End If


    Next
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I can't get the tdObj.Click bit to click the hyperlink.

The html is below:

<td class="btn_container">


<input name="_linkSubmit" type="hidden"><a name="assessment_Reinstate" class="button_link" id="assessment_Reinstate" onclick="javascript:return disableLinks(this.href);" href='javascript:submitLink(document.Form0,"assessment_Reinstate");' type="button" renderer="uk.co.slc.tapestry.link.PortalLinkRenderer@1a79ffb">Reinstate Award</a>

</td>

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

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Zakaria Acharki

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J P

ASKER

Wonderful! Thanks Zakaria!

I just had to change the formatting slightly to:

tdObj.getElementsByTagName("a")(0).Click

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Can you explain how it works?

Jim

J P

ASKER

Thanks a million!

Zakaria Acharki

tdObj represent the table column `td` that you can't click it using Click since it has no click event attached or href to redirect to.

To click the anchor inside this td you need to select the anchor <a> first using the `getElementsByTagName('a')` method that returns an HTMLCollection of elements with the given tag name (<a>), then we use `(0)` to select the first one and finally Click to trigger the redirection.

Zakaria Acharki

You're welcome, glad to help sir.