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Ben Os
20,008 PointsAutoclicking a button with Javascript
There is a webpage that contains a form of username, password, and a submit button.
Each time I go into that webpage, I have to manually click the button to login (the creators of the webpage disabled automatic logging in even when the details are remembered by the browser).
I wish to enter automatically anyway. For that reason, I created the following script, but for some reason it doesn't work. I wonder what I missed as it seems okay to me:
(function() {
let myButton = document.querySelector("[type=submit]");
window.onload.click(myButton);
})();
1 Answer
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsThis doesn't "seem okay":
window.onload.click(myButton);
Because window.onload is an event handler, and event handlers don't have a "click" method.
But the button itself would, try this instead:
myButton.click();
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Ben Os
20,008 PointsThank you for this logical, clear, and swift explanation!
Gonras Karols
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