Click <div> button that has no "onclick" method

[Twirlzy_]

I'm writing a macro to autograb data from a list of websites and one of my websites makes use of a toolbar. To pull up the download button dialog, I need to click a button on the toolbar labeled "Download." The "Download" button I am supposed to click however is not an actual button and has no effect if not errors when I attempt to click it from VBA. I have also attempted to click each of the <spans> under the anchor class but nothing worked their either.

Below is the HTML for the "button" if you can call it that. I also have my code below which grabs an element by classname but clicking it accomplishes nothing.

HTML:

<div class-"tabToolbarButton tab-widget download" role="button"
data-tb-test-id="download-ToolbarButton" id="download-ToolbarButton" tabindex="-1"
style="user-select: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" title="Download">
<span class="tabToolbarButtonImg tab-icon-download"></span>
<span class="tabToolbarButtonText">Downloads</span>

VBA:

'Variables
Dim IE As InternetExplorer
Dim HTMLdoc As HTMLDocument
Dim DownloadButton As HTMLInputButtonElement
Set IE = New InternetExplorerMedium
With IE

.Visible = True
.Left = 25
.Top = 25
.Height = 700
.Width = 1300
AppActivate ("Internet Explorer")
.Navigate Site
IE_Wait IE
Set HTMLdoc = .Document
Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("00:00:10"))
IE_Wait IE

Set DownloadButton = HTMLdoc.getElementsByClassName("tabToolbarButton tab-widget download")(0)
DownloadButton.Click '<-- ERRORS here as DownloadButton is not set to a real <button>

'CODE BELOW FINDS THE CORRECT BUTTON TO DOWNLOAD DATA
'NEED TO FIND DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO ENABLE VISIBLITY OF DIALOGBOX
Debug.Print HTMLdoc.getElementsByClassName("fppw03o low-density").Length

Site link has been omitted, and the IE_Wait function merely waits until the IE is done loading. IE_Wait absolutely works given I have used it multiple times for different pages. Application.Wait is merely used to ensure everything has loaded properly before running code.

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you

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When hovering over the button, the top class changes to

<div class="tabToolbarButton tab-widget download hover"...<div>

Same with when it is clicked, it changes to

<div class="tabToolbarButton tab-widget download hover focus"...<div>

momentarily.

Nothing happens with:

ie.document.querySelector(".tab-icon-download + .tabToolbarButtonText").click

I attempted to click each of those elements, the anchor, .tab-icon-download, and both spans, but nothing would actually get clicked.

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[List of all <div> Event Listeners][1] for the parent <div>. No onclick event to be seen and I am unsure how the <div> is even watched. .Focus in VBA errors out and I am stumped.




[1]:

https://imgur.com/J5jtW

 

[John_w]

Use getElementById to get the div element and dispatchEvent or fireEvent to trigger the click. Sometimes the element might have a click event associated with it and other event(s) e.g. mousedown. Sometimes the parent element has event(s) you must trigger - examine the parent hierarchy in your browser's dev tools. These experiments are shown in this code:

    Dim downloadDiv As HTMLDivElement
    
    #If VBA7 Then
        Dim clickEvent As DOMMouseEvent
        Dim mouseDownEvent As DOMMouseEvent
    #Else
        Dim clickEvent As Object
        Dim mouseDownEvent As Object
    #End If
    
    'Ensure page is fully loaded before executing these lines
    
    Set clickEvent = HTMLdoc.createEvent("MouseEvent")
    clickEvent.initEvent "click", True, False
    Set mouseDownEvent = HTMLdoc.createEvent("MouseEvent")
    mouseDownEvent.initEvent "mousedown", True, False
    
    Set downloadDiv = HTMLdoc.getElementById("download-ToolbarButton")
    
    'Either:
    downloadDiv.dispatchEvent clickEvent
    downloadDiv.dispatchEvent mouseDownEvent
    
    'Or:
    downloadDiv.FireEvent "onclick"
    downloadDiv.parentElement.FireEvent "onclick"

 

[Twirlzy_]

Thanks so much for your reply, I tried exactly that code but nothing appears to happen. If it helps, from what I can tell the element has a "mousedown" event but nothing happened when calling it.