Clear Javascript Message Box from VBA

Question

In controlling a website (with VBA), and attempting to delete all of the selected items in a table, I get a Javascript pop-up which asks me if I really want to delete all of them (OK or Cancel). When this pops up, my vba code stops, and will not do anything else, until a human clicks the button.

I have researched this quite a bit, and it seems that changing the onClick event for the HTML button would in theory work, but I have been unable to get it to work as of yet. Below is the HTML code for the button, the subsequent Javascript code, and then my VBA code.

HTML Button

 <p>Delete:&nbsp;<input type="button" name="button_Delete" value="Delete" onclick="doDelete('c');">&nbsp;<span class="note">Deletes all selected charts.</span></p> <p>Move to:&nbsp;<select id="select_Lists" name="select_Lists"> 

Javascript after HTML Button

 <a href="javascript:doDeleteList('169', 'C');">Delete List</a> | 

VBA Code to Delete all selected from HTML Table

Dim ieDelete as HTMLInputButtonElement
SetieDelete = IE.Document.getElementsByName("button_Delte")(0)
Sleep(500)
ieDelete.removeAttribute("onClick")
Sleep(500)
ieDelete.setAttribute "onClick", "return true;"
Sleep(500)
ieDelete.Click

When running the VBA as is, it continues to bring up the Javascript message box. I have attempted adding ieDelete.setAttribute "onClick", "" , but that ends up deleting the entire event, I was not able to do anything to it after that.

And... For the record, I also saw a post describing another option, but I couldn't figure out how to use it in my scenario. Respond to Website Message Box by Automating InternetExplorer with VBA

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Answer 1

You could possibly hack the confirmation dialog itself: Overwrite the builtin javascript confirm function using the following VBA code before calling ieDelete.Click :

IE.Document.parentWindow.execScript "confirm = function() { return true; }"

(Insert it before your call to ieDelete.Click )

This will cause the browser to automatically 'click' OK whenever a confirmation dialog is requested.

PS: This answer assumes that the following:

• The website uses the confirm javascript call.
• The version of Internet Explorer you're using supports execScript . Other versions might call it eval - see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536420%28v=vs.85%29.aspx for the compatability notice.