How todentify Safari Javascript Alert Dialog using AppleScript

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In a particularly 'pesky' website, a dialog box pops up to block (or cover) automated entry of the userid input box.

I have used the following code attempting to get a reference & to close this window, but have been unsuccessful.

tell application "System Events"
    key code 15 using {command down}
    key code 36        // return key

end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    set numSheets to (count of sheets) & " sheets" as text       // 0 sheets
end tell

set numDocuments to (count of documents) & " documents" as text  // 1 documents
set numWindows to (count of windows) & " windows" as text        // 1 sheets

What else is available to find and close that alert box?

Edit: The key code 36 will sometimes close the alert, and other times, when it's not present, will submit the page too early.

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If you had an alert dialog appearing with an OK button, then this AppleScript code would close it.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    if exists (button "OK" of window 1) then
        click (button "OK" of window 1)
    end if
end tell

You'll likely need to customise this to fit your exact situation. If the alert dialog appears with a title you can all specify that as below.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    if exists (button "OK" of window "Java applet missing") then
        click (button "OK" of window "Java applet missing")
    end if
end tell

Another option would be to identify the alert by using "front window" as in the following example (assuming the alert is the front window).

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    if exists (button "OK" of front window) then
        click (button "OK" of front window)
    end if
end tell

Hope this helps.

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For a minute there I thought you were asking the same question again as last time.

But realise now you want to know how to use Inspect Element to construct your own code.

In the example you give: document.forms[WHATGOESHERE?].click()

The WHATGOESHERE would be the form name.

i.e document.forms['theFormName'].click()

Your website in their wisdom has named the form 'form'

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/RNAfold.cgi" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form"> <input type="hidden" name="PAGE" value="2">

i.e document.forms['form'].click()

But this would not click the input button

You can use the submit() function dot syntax'd on the end :

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In the code I provided you in your last question. I used:

tell document 1

        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0].click()"

    end tell

This uses the class Name proceed of the forms input element seen here: class="proceed"

<input value="" name="proceed" type="submit" class="proceed" onmouseover="this.style.cursor="pointer"" style="cursor: pointer;">

The getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0] does exactly what it says.

It gets the Elements By ClassName 'proceed'.

The [0] means it will give you the first element in it's results from the Array that would be returned. The array is counted from 0-9. So the first item would be item 0.

A good place to get working examples and information about Javascript is at www.w3schools.com On the front page the have links to their HTML and Javascript examples and Tutorials. The elements of the HTML Dom and Javascript functions are listed for easy access.

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