How to interact with elements of page web's HTML?

[Kalofman]

Hi,

How in AppleScript to interact (click with mouse for example) with elements of the web page (a button for example) defined in its html code?

thanks

[estockly (Ed Stockly)]

You can use appleScript to send JavaScripts to execute in the browser.

Check out this topic here:

@kevin.funderburg

Well after some snooping I found a wonderful set of tutorials on cubemg.com that break down the incorporation of Javascript with AppleScript for basic Safari control perfectly and now I am scripting Safari like crazy. I wish I could give the author more props but I could only find his name as Samuel.

The aspects that originally confounded me were how to identify what Javascript elements to look for after inspecting an element on a website (i.e. class, ID, name, tag), then how to use that found element within AppleScript to perform actions or get input.