Vista - Issue need your help: How to control combox/dropdownlist in web page?

Hi,

Here is an issue need your help, very appricate you if can provide any ideas...

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
$webclient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$oIE.visible=$true

$oIE.navigate2($passportSignUP)
while ($oIE.busy) {
sleep -milliseconds 1000
}
sleep -milliseconds 3000
$oIE.document.getElementById("imembername").value = $myidalias
$oIE.document.getElementById("iPwd").value = "password"
$oIE.document.getElementById("iRetypePwd").value = "password"
$oIE.document.getElementById("iSQ").SelectedIndex = "1"
$oIE.document.getElementById("iSA").value = "The Green Mile"
$oIE.document.getElementById("iFirstName").value = "Min"
$oIE.document.getElementById("iLastName").value = "Zhang"

When you in Windows Live ID sign up page, we can type text in textbox easily by DOM method e.g. $oIE.document.getElementById("iSA").value = "The Green Mile" , but how to control combox/dropdownlist in web page?

Thanks much for your help!
Belem

What do you mean by "control?" You should be able to just set the
drop-down's Value property if you want to change its value. I believed you
can change the Selected property of an <Option> object to force it to be
selected, but there's no programmatic way to visually "drop" the list.

You might re-post in one of the DHTML newsgroups, as this is the type of
thing those guys deal with almost daily - you really need to know how the
DOM does this, rather than how the IE COM object behaves or how PowerShell
treats it.

--
Don Jones
Windows PowerShell MVP
Founder: www.ScriptingAnswers.com
Co-Author: "Windows PowerShell: TFM"

"belem" <belem.2pqg81@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Here is an issue need your help, very appricate you if can provide any
> ideas...
>
> [void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
> $webclient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
> $oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
> $oIE.visible=$true
>
> $oIE.navigate2($passportSignUP)
> while ($oIE.busy) {
> sleep -milliseconds 1000
> }
> sleep -milliseconds 3000
> $oIE.document.getElementById("imembername").value = $myidalias
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iPwd").value = "password"
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iRetypePwd").value = "password"
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iSQ").SelectedIndex = "1"
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iSA").value = "The Green Mile"
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iFirstName").value = "Min"
> $oIE.document.getElementById("iLastName").value = "Zhang"
>
> When you in Windows Live ID sign up page, we can type text in textbox
> easily by DOM method e.g. $oIE.document.getElementById("iSA").value =
> "The Green Mile" , but how to control combox/dropdownlist in web page?
>
> Thanks much for your help!
> Belem
>
>
> --
> belem