"Click" a javascript button with VBA
<p>endless googling and lots of solutions haven't seemed to help. I keep getting endless errors of different kinds, and just can't find an elegant way of clicking this button unless I get the code to wait for four seconds while I click it manually with my mouse. </p>

<p>It works on other buttons, but I'm working if the problem here is the nested doPostBack and the many '' (substituted from "") in it? </p>

<p>Code below (I've trimmed out irrelevant sections)</p>

<p>VBA Code:</p>

<pre><code>Sub IE_Clicks()

    Dim shellWins As ShellWindows
    Dim IE As InternetExplorer

    Set shellWins = New ShellWindows

    If shellWins.Count &gt; 0 Then
    ' Get IE
    Set IE = shellWins.Item(0)
    IE.Visible = True
    Else
    ' Create IE
    Set IE = New InternetExplorer
    IE.Visible = True
    End If

    IE.Navigate ("[URL]")

Do While (IE.Busy Or IE.READYSTATE &lt;&gt; READYSTATE.READYSTATE_COMPLETE)
    DoEvents
Loop
    Call IE.document.parentWindow.execScript("WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions('ctl00$cphMain$btnAddTab', '', true, '', '', false, false))", "JavaScript")

    Set IE = Nothing
 End Sub
</code></pre>

<p>HTML Code: </p>

<pre><code>&lt;input type="submit" name="ctl00$cphMain$btnAddTab" value="Add New" onclick="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions(&amp;quot;ctl00$cphMain$btnAddTab&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;&amp;quot;, true, &amp;quot;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;&amp;quot;, false, false))" id="ctl00_cphMain_btnAddTab" class="ActionButton"&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>JavaScript:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
//&lt;![CDATA[
var theForm = document.forms['aspnetForm'];
if (!theForm) {
    theForm = document.aspnetForm;
}
function __doPostBack(eventTarget, eventArgument) {
    if (!theForm.onsubmit || (theForm.onsubmit() != false)) {
        theForm.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
        theForm.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
        theForm.submit();
    }
}
//]]&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Something that would enable me to click this button would be amazing. </p>