Reputation: 55

How to get an HTML button disabled status (true or false) into AppleScript?

Buttons in webpages have a disabled status. This status can be true or false. if true, that means the button is greyed out on the webpage.

With Javascript, I can retrieve the status with this:

document.getElementById('view-more').disabled

it will either return true or false.

But if I combine this with AppleScript:

set buttonStatus to do Javascript "document.getElementById('view-more').disabled

Nothing gets returned about the status of the button.

The actual HTML code for the button is:

<button id="view-more" class="view_more">View more</button>

And when the button is disabled it becomes:

<button id="view-more" class="view_more" disabled="disabled">View more</button>

Upvotes: 0

Answers (1)

Reputation: 7555

Using a simple HTML file with a disabled button, the following example AppleScript code works for me:

Example AppleScript code:

tell application "Safari"
    do JavaScript "document.getElementById('button').disabled;" in document 1
end tell

The contents of the HTML file as shown in Terminal:

% cat button.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <button id="button" disabled>Button</button>
  </body>
</html>
%

Screen Shot of Script Editor:

With the button enabled.

The contents of the HTML file as shown in Terminal:

% cat button.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <button id="button">Button</button>
  </body>
</html>
%

Screen Shot of Script Editor:

Upvotes: 1