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How can we add multiple line text in Chrome using document.getElementsByClassName?
I have no issue when it's one line but one I have more than one I have a missing value instead
set myCaseNote to "MULTIPLE
LINE
TEXT
HERE"
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell tab 3 of window 1 to set RemoveBtRestriction to execute javascript ¬
" document.getElementsByClassName('text-entry')[1].value=" & quoted form of myCaseNote & ""
end tell
Result: missing value
The window bounds are a list of coordinates {left, top, right, bottom}. You probably intended "400" to be the width, but it's the position of the right edge of the window and 400 is to the left of 1105, so you get a minimum width window. Change 400 to 1105 plus the desired width, e.g., 1505.
But before you pursue this further, Terminal has a better solution for this: Window Groups. If you set up a group of windows and save them as a Window Group, each time you open that group it will create windows with the same layout and appearance.
Window > Save Windows as Group…
You can even tell Terminal to open a selected window group at startup:
Terminal > Preferences > Startup > On startup, open: > Window group:
(As a shortcut, when creating a window group there's a checkbox for making it the startup group.)
To automatically run particular commands in those windows, you can create custom settings profiles and specify the command with
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Shell > Startup > Run command:
then create each window with the appropriate profile.
Going further, in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 you can have window groups automatically restore commands without creating custom profiles, by creating the terminals using
Shell > New Command
instead of running the command inside the terminal shell. When creating the window group, you can check "Restore all commands". (By default, it will restore a small set of "safe" commands, but you must explicitly tell it if you want it to re-run all commands when opening the group.)
Moreover, Lion Terminal supports Resume and will automatically restore all your windows each time you open Terminal. It will even restore "safe" commands for terminals created with New Command.
open -j -a "Google Chrome" 'https://www.google.com/'
Adding accessibility permissions for Chrome disables the "Hold command-Q to quit" feature and allows other apps to control the window (e.g. shell script). Using the -j option launches the app hidden as opposed to -g that is meant to prevent the app launching in the foreground.
Best Answer
Splitting the string over several physical lines as you did causes a syntax error in the JavaScript. Use a newline character instead.
I see you really love sticking on those empty strings at the end of your concatenations. I now recognise this as your trademark.
I momentarily deleted this answer when it didn't work as expected. Then I realised the newline character
\nneeds to be escaped twice, so it's written as\\n.It's working now.