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Find Element on a Webpage


Searches the webpage for the element that matches the specified criteria. You can also use this action to gather the display text of the element.

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Parameters

  • Page name Specifies which page will be searched. The webpage should be opened or connected before executing this action.

  • Find what Specifies the type of element to be searched.

  • Find method Specifies the search method.

  • Find content Specifies the content to find.

  • Ordinal while multi elements meet condition Specifies the position of the element in all matched elements.

  • Match case Specifies whether the search is case-sensitive.

  • Match whole words Specifies whether to search only for whole words that match the search content.

  • Set keyboard focus to element Specifies whether to set the cursor focus to the element.

  • Return display text of element into variable Specifies a variable for holding the display text of the element.

Notes:

  • If an element matches the criteria, the value of the global variable "error" will be a string "OK", otherwise, it will be set to the string "WAR".


  • For the find method "Find element by attribute", using the standard HTML synax, for example:
    id=abc size=1
    id="abc" size="1"
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