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c#htmlgetelementbyidgetelementsbytagnamewebautomation

Javascript GetElementByName within a C# HtmlDocument

I am writing a web automation that fills out lengthy online forms based on stored data and then notifies the user of the results. The website that I am automating names all of it's objects, but does not use the id tag. Is there something like HtmlDocument.GetElementById that works with the name tag? I don't think GetElementsByTagName is right. It doesn't return the specific element, but instead generates an array.

Solution

  • You can iterate over the elements returned by GetElementsByTagName and check their name attribute (which is not the same as a tag name).

    GetElementByTagName gets all elements that have the same element name (so for images, the tag name is img).

    var inputs = GetElementsByTagName("input");

for(var input in inputs)
{
  if(input.GetAttribute("name") == nameIAmLookingFor)
  {
    // do something
    break;
  }
}