In this post I will explain how to identify a disabled drop-down.
Think we need to gather data from drop downs of list of web pages. Assume list of urls are in column A of an Excel worksheet and we need to put the value of the drop-down to a column B.
First we need to find a disabled drop down and compare it's HTML code with HTML code of normal drop-down to find something unique part for disabled ones.
For an example here is a HTML code of a normal drop down.
<select start="1" min="1" step="1" ptext="Quantity: " name="tmp" class="drp qty">
And below is a HTML code of the disabled drop down.
<select start="1" min="1" step="1" ptext="Quantity: " disabled="disabled" name="tmp" class="drp qty">
So now we can see that disabled="disabled" is unique for HTML codes of disabled drop downs. Because of that we can use Instr function to distinguish disabled drop downs.
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DisableCheckingString = objIE.document.getElementsByClassName("drp qty")(0).outerhtml If InStr(1, DisableCheckingString, "disabled=""disabled", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then WS.Range("B" & i).Value = "Drop-down disabled" End If |
So here is a full code of an example.
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Dim WS As Worksheet Dim QuantityString As String Dim DisableCheckingString As String Dim url As String Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") Set WS = ActiveSheet objIE.Top = 0 objIE.Left = 0 objIE.Width = 800 objIE.Height = 600 objIE.Visible = True 'find last row Lastrow = WS.Cells.Find("*", [A1], , , xlByRows, xlPrevious).Row For i = 1 To Lastrow url = WS.Range("A" & i).Value If WS.Range("A" & i).Value <> "" Then objIE.Navigate (url) Do DoEvents Loop Until objIE.readystate = 4 Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:03")) QuantityString = objIE.document.getElementsByClassName("drp qty")(0).innerText DisableCheckingString = objIE.document.getElementsByClassName("drp qty")(0).outerhtml WS.Range("B" & i).Value = QuantityString 'Distinguish disabled ones If InStr(1, DisableCheckingString, "disabled=""disabled", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then WS.Range("B" & i).Value = "Out of Stock" End If End If Next i objIE.Quit MsgBox "Completed!", vbInformation, "" |
