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Automated clicking on HTML elements – Chee Wee’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/03

Magic from the JavaScript console: [WayBack] Automated clicking on HTML elements – Chee Wee’s blog: IT solutions for Singapore and companies worldwide.

This is the code he uses because [WayBack] getElementsByClassName returns an array ([WayBack] getElementById returns one reference or null, but many sites still develop without assigning an ID to their elements):

function clickRefresh() {
  ImStillHere = document.getElementsByClassName("Button Success");
  if (ImStillHere.length > 0)
    ImStillHere[0].click();
  document.getElementsByClassName("refresh-widget")[0].click();
}
setInterval(clickRefresh, 1000);

via: [WayBack] function clickRefresh(){ … – CHUA Chee Wee – Google+

I like the approach. Now I need to find a way to automate this in some kind of plug-in.

–jeroen

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