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Trying to programatically click a button on a web page with cefsharp

I'm using cefsharp and vb.net to put some code together to move to the next page of this site:
https://www.recommendedagencies.com/search#{}
The idea is to read the list of company names on each page and store to a csv file. This part I can do.
The problem I have is that I can't find the name of the 'Next' button - presumably if I had that I could execute some javascript on the browser to press the button.
I've inspected the page in Firefox, but can't see any name I can use - I'm not really familiar enough with html/page design to know why not or how it works.
Could anyone tell me a good method to get button names from a web page? - I've done some searching and even asked a similar question myself before, but I can't find anything which helps, given my patchy knowledge.
Thanks

Inspect the DOM for the 'Next' button.
Look for id's or classes that you can use to identify it.
use document.querySelector() to find the element by the css selector
call the element.click() function to programatically press next
const nextButton = document.querySelector('.sp-pages-nav_next')
nextButton.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
console.log('something clicked next')
})
nextButton.click()
<div class="sp-pages-nav sp-pages-nav_next" data-reactid=".1.3.4.1">Next</div>
In the above snippet on load you can see the code nextButton.click() invokes the console log. You can click the word Next manually to the same effect.
in cefsharp perhaps something like:
browser.ExecuteJavaScriptAsync("(function(){ document.querySelector('.sp-pages-nav_next').click(); })();");
A very similar example can be found here :
https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/General-Usage#1-how-do-you-call-a-javascript-method-from-net
// When executing multiple statements, group them together in an IIFE
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/IIFE
// For Google.com pre-populate the search text box and click the search button
browser.ExecuteJavaScriptAsync("(function(){ document.getElementsByName('q')[0].value = 'CefSharp Was Here!'; document.getElementsByName('btnK')[0].click(); })();");

Javascript only firing once

long-time lurker here asking my first public questions because I am truly stuck.
I'm working on a hosted shopping cart platform so I only have access to add code in certain designated divs. I have a javascript code that I'm calling externally (because inline is bad unless you have to, right?)
So my issue is, There is a <select> dropdown that I do NOT have direct access to change HTML and the silly shopping cart platform didn't give it an id, only the name attribute is set.
I need to clear the <div id="result_div"> when the <select name="ShippingSpeedChoice"> drop-down is clicked so I have:
$("[name=ShippingSpeedChoice]").change(function(e) {
$("#result_div").empty();
});
It fires once, but that's it. My question is, how do I make it fire EVERY TIME the <select name="ShippingSpeedChoice"> is clicked?
Here's all the relevant javascript (in case it's preventing #result_div from clearing somewhere):
$("[name=ShippingSpeedChoice]").change(function(e) {
$("#result_div").empty();
});
$("#btn_calc").click(function(e) { /// onclick on Calculate Delivery Date button
Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated!

If you want something to happen every time the element is clicked, use .click() rather than .change(). The latter only fires if they select a different value from the menu than it had before.
$("[name=ShippingSpeedChoice]").click(function(e) { $("#result_div").empty(); });

First of all, I'd probably try and setup the shopping cart select to have an id.
$("[name=ShippingSpeedChoice]").id = 'shopping_cart_select';
then try binding the "change" function to the element via it's id.
$('#shopping_cart_select').bind('change', function(){
//rest of code goes here
}

I still wasn't able to use the name attribute to call the function, so I found a way around it by using the id of the td the ShippingSpeedChoice dropdown was in:
$("#DisplayShippingSpeedChoicesTD").change(function(e) {
$("#result_div").empty();
And it fires every time now. Thank you so much for all your feedback & assistance - I still wish I could figure out how to use the name attribute rather than the id, but that will be a puzzle for another day!

Copy the calls of the button using jQuery

So a project has been passed to me and there is a button on a Twitter bootstrap sidebar doing a search dynamically. I cannot figure out which calls the button is making, and I need to replicate its functionality with another button. (We want two buttons doing the same thing) is there a way to use jquery (find maybe?) to do this? I was trying something like this:
$side-bar.find('#newSearchButton').on('click', function(){
$side-bar.find('#oldSearchButton')._data.events.click[0].handler;
});
I know this is wrong, but I don't know what to do to make it work. I just want to be able to make the new search button perform the same search as the old search button.

Couldn't you use a function that when new button is clicked, clicks old button, hence doing the magic behind the old button.
$('#newSearchButton').click(function(){
$('#oldSearchButton').click();
});

You can set same callback to a list of objects. In your case, you can do:
$side-bar.find('.MyButton').on('click', function(){
// do something
});
Note that you have to include class="MyButton" to your buttons tags for this to work.

How to append ajax data only once?

I am trying to append new returned data to my select tag when user selects a drop down menu
obj.prototype.getText=function(){
codes....
call ajax....
ajax.callback=function(data){
$('#option').append(data);
}
}
$('#dropdown').on('change', function(){
obj.getText()
})
My problem is that I only want to append data when the user clicks the dropdown menu the first time.
my code will keep append more same data to my #option as long as user keeps clicking the drop down menu...
Are there anyways to fix this? Thanks a lot.

Use .one() instead of .on(). It unbinds itself once you trigger the event once:
$('#dropdown').one('change', obj.getText);

You could simply remove the on change event, so it's no longer triggered.
$('#dropdown').off('change');
I would also look into the notion of a "run once" command. This isn't really what I would recommend here, but going forward, it's a cool thing to know. underscore.js does it well

You need to turn off the handler.
something like this.
$('#dropdown').on('change', function(){
obj.getText()
$('#dropdown').off('change');
})

That is probably the best way , turn of event handler , or you could always store a bool value in a hidden field , like
<input type="hidden" id="hidAleadyAppended" />
and then set it to true after it is appended once.
This way if you ever need to know if it has been appended already in other code, that is a quick reliable way to check

updating value in html table via javascript

Hi is there any way to upadte cell value with no events (i dont want to use 'onClick' or others)?
The scheme is: user is filling form value, then clicks 'ok', and then value should be showed in cell in html table ?
thx in advance for all help

Well, you can use a link with href="javascript:myFunction()" instead of an onclick, but I'm not sure if that counts as an event :)

No, you need to hook up on an even to trigger it.

Since the user is going to click the Ok link anyways that seems to be the most relevant place to invoke your javascript from.
Create a div with an id around the content you would like to change.
Create a javascript function that sets the innerHTML of the above div.
Call the javascript function when the user hits the Ok link.