Why I can't click this button?

I was the first to have made 10,000 posts in the CodeGuru forums, most of which were for C++ and nearly all posts were attempts to help others. I am at level 5 in the MSDN forums but I forget what forums.

I am still learning C# and .Net and many other things. Vulpes knows more about C# and .Net. I am also experienced with C++. Most of my professional experience was with COBOL, most of which was before Windows existed.

I have used other languages too of course.

Sam... you have 5820 posts in this website. I wonder that are you a C# master or not? what programming languages do you know? I'm just asking...

As you wish, I will leave this for Vulpes.

Then you do not want to click it since clicking it will navigate to the address.

I don't know what an action is. If you can explain what an action is in terms of HTML then I can probably explain ho to do it but I don't know what iMacros are.

no I don't want to navigate http://sfj.grigori.org/edituser.php page. I want to go "edituser.php" like an action.

for example, we can do that with FORM=ACTION:edituser.php code in iMacros . but I don't know how can I do that with C#. I need it because I will use that code for my URL List. (for every sites)

It is not a button; it is an anchor, which is often called a link. Why do you need to click it? If you need to go to the page, then navigate to the page. So I think that would be:

webBrowser1.Navigate("http://sfj.grigori.org/edituser.php");

Hopefully it is that simple. It depends on the situation. There will be times when you might need to get all the anchors ("a" tags or elements) in a page, filter them somehow, then show a list to select from. Then when one of them is selected, your program could navigate to the page specified in the href. For example if a page shows some pictures; you could get all the links and then automatically download all links that are for pictures.

okay sam thanks a lot. I have a question. new page contains "editaccount.php" and code is:
Edit Account

how can I click this Edit Account button?

how we can go to blablabla.php , blablabla.aspx , blablabla.html pages with c#?

Just look for articles in this web site. You will find my article Introduction to Web Site Scraping. Note that everything I know I have learned by reading the documentation and by searching and searching and searching.

There are other ways to find elements using the DOM. I would avoid going through all the elements using the all collection if possible. I would try to determine if I can navigate through the hierarchy of elements, but I would have to study the document to determine how to process that document. My code in article is an example of what I mean. You can look at the documentation to quickly determine that HtmlDocument.GetElementsByTagName can be used to get a collection of "input" tags and then you can look for one with a value attribute of "Finish" and a type attribute of "submit".

@Sam Hobbs sorry I am very new programmer can you suggest me a good and short source to making bots with C#??

@vulpes thank you very much bro. you are my hero hehehe :) I want to know C# just like you. please suggest me a good source.

Cheers..

It looks to me like this piece of html represents the button you're trying to click:



As there's no id or name attribute, I think you'll have to resort to iterating through the elements until you find one with a value attribute of 'Finish'. This code should do that:

  foreach(HtmlElement element in webBrowser1.Document.All)

  {

    if (element.GetAttribute("value") == "Finish")

    {

        element.InvokeMember("click");

        break;

    }
 } 

Why are you using XOOPS_TOKEN_REQUEST? Do you know what it is? I do not.

When I go to that page, I see a Submit button but not a Finish button. So I am probably not able to tell you what to use but you probably do not want to use XOOPS_TOKEN_REQUEST.

Also, if it were me and I was having problems with the code, I would split the line into two or more lines. In you code, you call GetElementById then you call InvokeMember. If there is a problem with GetElementById then you might never know that there is a problem; your code might simply fail without warning. So you should first check the return value from GetElementById to ensure it works before calling InvokeMember.