Fill out a web form

mendy · February 27th, 2004, 02:31 PM

although, Phil's reply was great. I combined his reply with other stuff that I knew and I came up with something like this. And now I don't have to open the web page within my program, it can stand for itself, which is what I really want it to do.

Dim web As WebBrowser

Private Sub Form_Load()

   Set web = New WebBrowser
   Set web = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
   web.Navigate2 "http://webmail.juno.com/"

end sub

Private Sub FillForm()

   web.Document.Forms(0).LOGIN.Value = "Login ID"
   web.Document.Forms(0).Password.Value = "password"
   web.Document.Forms(0).submit
   web.Visible = True

end sub

12345 · May 19th, 2004, 06:29 AM

12345

12345 · May 19th, 2004, 10:03 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mendy
How would I use VB to find the names of fields on a web form and then fill out the form? For example going to the Juno page finding the password field and filling it out with a password stored in the VB program. Any reply would be really nice:)

Daihoc · June 4th, 2004, 12:09 PM

Just right click the page and view source. Search for "form" within the code. Once you have found that, then the rest is pretty much self explainitory, if you recognize the html code used to create forms.

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by 12345

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mendy

Quote:

How would I use VB to find the names of fields on a web form and then fill out the form? For example going to the Juno page finding the password field and filling it out with a password stored in the VB program. Any reply would be really nice:)

hatdance · June 21st, 2004, 07:07 PM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mendy
although, Phil's reply was great. I combined his reply with other stuff that I knew and I came up with something like this. And now I don't have to open the web page within my program, it can stand for itself, which is what I really want it to do.

Dim web As WebBrowser

Private Sub Form_Load()

   Set web = New WebBrowser
   Set web = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
   web.Navigate2 "http://webmail.juno.com/"

end sub
...

Using mendy's code:
Dim web As WebBrowser
   Set web = New WebBrowser
   Set web = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")
   web.Navigate2 "http://webmail.juno.com/"

I get "Compile Error: Invalid use of New keyword" on the second line. Anyone know how I can fix this. I am trying to accomplish basically the same same thing as the original poster.
Thanks

kepler · March 31st, 2006, 06:46 AM

Hi,

I'm not quite sure if I understood the code given here (I'm a newbie in this field). First: how do we fill the form that is already opened - not opened by VB? Second: how and where do we insert the code "With WebBrowserName.document , etc."?

Please be patient with me...

------------
Kepler
ClÃ§ear skies

theotherkiwi · June 18th, 2006, 03:28 AM

Try using WebBrowser_V1 instead of WebBrowser (found this by using the object browser), not sure that the class or method is correct though).

or try

'Declarations required for opening an IE window
Private MainIE As New InternetExplorer
Private WithEvents MainIE_Sink As InternetExplorer

Private Sub Form_Load
  'Make the MainIE_Sink refer to the same IE instance as MainIE
  Set MainIE_Sink = MainIE
  MainIE.Visible = Not MainIE.Visible
  MainIE.navigate "http://cisco.com/"
End Sub

rajeshvb · March 27th, 2007, 11:02 PM

object doesnt support this property or method, i'm using vb6 sp5

web.Document.Forms

also

.formname property does not work???

rajeshvb · March 27th, 2007, 11:03 PM

object doesnt support this property or method, i'm using vb6 sp5

web.Document.Forms

also

.formname property does not work???

dtbradio · March 31st, 2015, 02:28 PM

I know this is an old thread, but how do you write that code if you do not know the form name, or there is no form name shown in the html source?

Edit: This is in reference to post #9 of this thread.