I want to manipulate or set text in a input type="text" tag on a website. But this input has a dynamic generated name on every load.
How to get and manipulate this element in java?
Here is an example
placeholder="Type Text here" style="width: 448px; text-align: center;">
The name "VHqnx63SwDau2nuNOOFRM2MCJ5sJawbpHv" is on every new loading the website something else.
I found no really helpful posts to this problem.
Should I maybe use something like jsoup?
解决方案
Yes, you should definitely use Jsoup.
With Jsoup, it should be as simple as this:
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();
System.out.println(doc.select("form[name=sform] > center > input").first());
This gets the first input element from the HTML which is a child of a centre element which is in a form element.
Which prints:
Jsoup also offers lots of other cool stuff like directly getting or setting attributes, and lots more. So you could do:
Element e = doc.select("form[name=sform] > center > input").first();
e.attr("value", "Something");
System.out.println(e);
Which would print:
With the value set to "Something".