Click a link in IE through VBA - html

Question

I am trying to click a link but it is different from others links I have made it. I don't have a field called "id" or something.
Here is the HTML. I need it to click "pibmunic super" button/link. The FIREPATH XPath shows .//*[#id='informacoes_estatisticas']/ul/li[20]/span
<div id="informacoes_estatisticas">
<h3 class="titulo">Informações Estatísticas</h3>
<ul class="links">
<li class="item Censo Agropecuário_2006">
<li class="censo2010 super">
<li class="educa super">
<li class="empresas super">
<li class="vida super">
<li class="item Estimativa da População 2014_">
<li class="prodext2013 super">
<li class="financas super">
<li class="frota super">
<li class="item Fundações Privadas e Associações sem Fins Lucrativos no Brasil 2010_">
<li class="item Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal - IDHM_">
<li class="instfin super">
<li class="item Mapa de Pobreza e Desigualdade - Municípios Brasileiros_2003">
<li class="morbid super">
<li class="prodpec2013 super">
<li class="item Pesquisa Nacional de Saneamento Básico_2008">
<li class="item Produção Agrícola Municipal - Cereais, Leguminosas e Oleaginosas_2007">
<li class="lavperm2013 super">
<li class="lavtemp2013 super">
<li class="pibmunic super">
<span class="super">Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios</span>
<ul class="pibmunic sub">
</li>
<li class="partpol super">
<li class="assismed super">
<li class="snig_censo2010 super">
</ul>
</div>
I am trying to write my code as something like this
Set m = html.getElementById("something")
Set a = m.getElementsByTagName("something")(something)
a.Click
I am not sure this is right, I have tried lots of combinations and it does not work. I don't know exactly which "getelementsby" I should use or what to give the command inside ().
Hope you can help me !! thanks

Answer 1

All of your classes seem to be unique. If that's the case you should change all the class attributes to id attributes ex:
class="something"
to
id="something"
Once you do that getElementById("something") will work. getElementsByTagName() returns an array of elements with a specific tag. ex:
getElementsByTagName("li")
retrieves all the li elements under a node.
If the newest VBA supports querySelectorAll() that will allow you to use CSS selectors to find elements. ex:
querySelectorAll(".something")
This will find all elements with the class something. However, since there can be multiple elements with the same class, you will get an array as a result. You can either loop over these elements to process them, narrow your selector, or get the first index of the returned array.
If VBA still does not support querySeletorAll() and you will need to combine getElementsByTagName() with a loop over the matching tags to find elements with the something class. ex:
For Each el in getElementById("container").getElementsByTagName("li")
For Each cl in el.className.Split(' ')
If cl = "something" Then
el.onclick()
End If
Next
Next
I would recommend assigning Id's or if at all possible use JavaScript or jQuery. They are more specialized at handling at these tasks (more abstraction). jQuery would be as simple as:
$(".something").trigger("click");