how to click a specific text in the page JAVASCRIPT

Question

after trying many ways to detect a specific word in the page and auto click on it ..so far i have

var items = document.body.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; ++i) {
    if (items[0].textContent == "my text or word") {
        items[0].click();
    }
}

the latest code seems work only for the first time (one time) but after refresh nothing happened i dont know what wrong

Answer 1

For some reason I have mixed success with document.body.getElementsByTagName("*"), so the below code uses either document.all OR document.body.getElementsByTagName("*") depending on which is supported.

You were using [0] as your index when it should have been the variable [i]. Also, you can use the method .includes which will search for a substring (a string within a string), making it more likely you will find the element you are looking for. Just tested the below in firefox console and seems to work fine.

 if (document.all !== undefined)
    {
      var items = document.all;
    }
    else
    {
      var items = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
    };                    
        for (var i = 0; i < items.length; ++i) {
        if (items[i].textContent.includes("Your Text Here")) {
            console.log("success"); 
            items[i].click();
        }
    }