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    Question Get attribute value of <a> element that has no ID or class using Access VBA

    Hello all;

    I tried searching my question on google but couldn't find an answer I'm looking for, probably because I couldn't phrase it properly in a short sentence. So here I am...

    I'm trying to access a webpage through Access VBA code, but having trouble getting the "href" form <a> element that don't have a ID or Class.

    Here's the example of html I'm trying to access:
    <div class="sub_cat_title">
    <a href="/somewebsite.com/somepage.htm">Link name</a>
    </div>
    Here's the VBA I tried:
    Dim col As IHTMLElementCollection
    Dim elm As IHTMLElement
    
    
    Set col = html.getElementsByClassName("sub_cat_title")
        For Each elm In col
                    field3 = elm.getAttribute("href") 
                    field2 = elm.outerText
                    Debug.Print field2 & ", " & field3
        Next
    As you can expect it only extract the elm.outerText part (Link name) and ignores the elm.getAttribute("heref"). I don't know how to get to the <a> element.

    Can someone please help?

    Thank you so much for your time.

    BJ

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    Figured it out (for the benefit of others who may have the same issue):

    instead of: elm.getAttribute("href")
    use: elm.Children(0).getAttribute("href")

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    Quote Originally Posted by bjay View Post
    Figured it out (for the benefit of others who may have the same issue):

    instead of: elm.getAttribute("href")
    use: elm.Children(0).getAttribute("href")
    You are an absolute legend, looked all over the net and finally came across this old post. Thanks from the future!

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    was looking for this for two days! Thank you. Could somebody explain why Children(0) though?

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    Presumably "Children" is an Access Object or VBA Array which start at (0) and not (1).

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    Thanks. I was not clear enough - my question is - why attribute "href" is accessible via children collection/array only? why direct elm.getAttribute("href") does not work?

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