GetElement Method (WebElement)
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Gets the first Web element by an XPath path, relative to the current Web element.
Syntax
expression.GetElement( _
ByVal As String _
) As WebElement object
where
expression is a variable that represents a
WebElement Object
Parameters
- xPath
- An XPath path pointing to a WebElement in the WebDocument. XPath is a language that describes how to locate specific elements in XML documents by using an addressing syntax, based on a path through the document's logical structure or hierarchy. A sample XPath syntax:
HTML/BODY/TABLE/TBODY/TR[1]/TD[1], where WebElement index starts from 0.
Return Value
A
WebElement object, or Nothing if no WebElement is found.
Example
This example navigates to a Web page and clicks on a link in the page. To run this sample, create and open a Web session and run this code in the session code module.
Sub webClick()
'Declare variables:
Dim wControl As Attachmate_Reflection_Objects.WebControl
Dim wDocument As WebDocument
Dim wElement As WebElement
Dim wElementInput As WebElement
Set wControl = ThisWebControl
'Get a handle to the workspace
Set app = GetObject("InfoConnect Workspace")
'Go to the Host Access Analyzer documentation page
wControl.Navigate1 ("https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/host-access-analyzer/")
'Wait until the Web page is ready and then set it as the Web document
Do Until wControl.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState_Complete
app.Wait (1000)
Loop
Set wDocument = wControl.Document
'Get the table that includes the link
Set wElement = wDocument.GetElementById("getting_started")
'Get the link element
Set wElementInput = wElement.GetElement("tbody/tr[0]/td[0]/a[0]")
'Click the link
wElementInput.Click
'Print the tag name of the element
Debug.Print wElementInput.tagName
End Sub
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