November 24, 2015

Finding HTML Attributes For Automating Web Sites

Filed under: Automation,Scripting,Web/Tech — Marcus Tettmar @ 1:00 pm

If you’re new to automating IE/websites with WebRecorder or the native Macro Scheduler IE functions you may be wondering how to determine which elements and attributes to use.

In this video I demonstrate how to use IE’s F12 key to invoke Developer Tools and use that to quickly find the elements we’re interested in and the attributes we need to use:

(You might want to click on the video toolbar to select a larger resolution size, view full screen or view on YouTube so that you can see the code).