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Dewayne_Pinion
Contributor
8 years ago

How to determine if an HTML table cell contains a textbox?

Greetings,

I have the following script that loops through an HTML table and saves out the contents of the cells to a .txt file. I would like to modify this script to ONLY print out to the file if the cell contains a textbox:

 

for (var i = 0; i < table.rows.length; i++)
		{
			aqFile.WriteToTextFile(fileName, Chr(13) + chr(10) + "Row " + i + Chr(13) + chr(10), aqFile.ctUTF8);
			for (var j = 0; j < table.rows.item(i).cells.length; j++)
      {
      aqFile.WriteToTextFile(fileName, "Cell " + j + ": " + table.rows.item(i).cells.item(j).innerText + Chr(13) + chr(10), aqFile.ctUTF8);
      }
		}

 

Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  • baxatob's avatar
    baxatob
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Hi

     

    Create an alias for the textbox using wildcards or conditional name mapping, to cover all possible textbox' locations inside the grid. Then use if statement like:

     

    for (i=0; i<rows.lenght; i++) {

    for (j=0; j<cells.lenght; j++) {

        if (rows[i].cells[j].textbox.Exists) {

            //doSomething;

}}}
    • Colin_McCrae's avatar
      Colin_McCrae
      Community Hero
      8 years ago

      I suspect the cell can exist, but be empty. That being the case, the above would still write out all cells.

       

      So probably better to extract the cell content, but only write it out if the string length is > 0. Or something along those lines.