How to click a button on a website with code in vb.net

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actually i am developing a vb.net desktop application, in which i am trying to add a browser and will be navigated to my company's website.
on that i want the application to automatically click a button with a star shape.
as i am not so familiar with html so didnt understand the code of the website which i got by seeing the page source.
but got the code for the button which is shown below.
i understand that the html element must have an id, but there is no id for the html element given for this button.
so i am not able to click button with the code.

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<button class="like-btn" type="submit">
<i class="icon-star"></i>
</button>

Posted 13-Oct-14 21:54pm

Kashif Alvi

Updated 13-Oct-14 21:59pm

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Mathew Soji · Answer 1 · 2014-10-13T23:21:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Once the brower windowe is active try sending Enter key stoke using the below code.

System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("{ENTER}");

Thanks

Posted 13-Oct-14 23:21pm

Mathew Soji

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Kashif Alvi 14-Oct-14 14:39pm

The enter key is not working here.
i want to click that button which does not have any element id

The Tech Guy · Answer 2 · 2014-12-19T01:43:00

Hi if there is something unique about the button, like it class is just for this one button or its tag, you can search your source using RegEx or if its repeated and not unique like :

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<button class="like-btn" type="submit">

</button>
<button class="like-btn" type="submit">
^__i class="icon-star">
</button>

and you want the firs, last or a unique one of them you can use HtmlElement & HtmlElementCollection and use index of your HtmlElementCollection variable to find it.

Check out HtmlElement Class[^] for more info.

sorry for my English.