How can I find an element by its tag and by specific attributes? This code I've written does find it by its tag, however it can't seem to find it by its attributes.
Why is there such behaviour with this code?
function FindElement(const Tag:String; const Attributes:TStringList):IHTMLElement;
var
FAttributeName, FAttributeValue:String;
Collection: IHTMLElementCollection;
E:IHTMLElement;
Count:Integer;
i, j:Integer;
begin
Collection := (EmbeddedWB1.Document as IHTMLDocument3).getElementsByTagName(Tag);
for i := 0 to Pred(Collection.length) do
begin
E := Collection.item(i, EmptyParam) as IHTMLElement;
for j := 0 to Attributes.Count-1 do
begin
FAttributeName:=LowerCase(List(Attributes,j,0,','));
FAttributeValue:=LowerCase(List(Attributes,j,1,','));
if not VarIsNull(E.getAttribute(FAttributeName,0)) then
begin
if (E.getAttribute(FAttributeName,0)=FAttributeValue) then
Inc(Count,1);
end;
if Count = Attributes.Count then
Exit(E);
end;
end;
end;
procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
Attributes:TStringList;
begin
Attributes:=TStringList.Create;
Attributes.Add('id,something');
Attributes.Add('class,something');
FindElement('sometag',Attributes);
Attributes.Free;
end;
E := Collection.item(i, EmptyParam) as IHTMLElement;
// you should clear the value of matched attributes counter for each element
Count := 0;
for j := 0 to Attributes.Count-1 do
begin
P.S. A little optimization:
if not VarIsNull(E.getAttribute(FAttributeName,0)) then
begin
if (E.getAttribute(FAttributeName,0)=FAttributeValue) then
Inc(Count,1);
end else
// if any of attributes of element is not found, you can skip to next element.
break;