Controling Dynamic Input Fields - webbrowser

I have VS 2008 and am working in VB.Net forms.

I have a webbrowser control where I am trying to control input fields that are dynamically created. If a text field has proper handles such as id and name tags there aren't any problems.

For example, I am trying to work with twitter for posts. I know twitter has an API but I want to work with many similar systems and want to avoid the API as its case specific and I want to scale things within the VB.Net form. The login fields for twitter are easily handled, however the posting field once your logged in is just a text area with a class. There is a tagname but I have been unable to post using the tagname element.

Any examples of posting to twitter without the API ?

web1.Document.GetElementById ... ?
web1.Document.GetElementsByTagName ... ?

I've done extensive searching but can find nothing to make it happen. DOM inspectors havn't revealed much about the field.

Thanks.

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Sam Hobbs15y ago
If the problem is that you can't figure out the HTML using the DOM then there is not much we can do to help. There are some articles in this web site that might help; I wrote one; but this web site specializes in C#.

Controling Dynamic Input Fields - webbrowser - VB.Net forms