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My Desktop flow needs to look up specific properties via the https://hpdonline.nyc.gov/ website. When entering in certain block and lots, there is more than one address result. I must make sure PAD is clicking on the correct result for the address I'm looking for. How can PAD tell me where on the page my text is found - in this case "1426 Atlantic Avenue"? Since I can navigate using key presses, just knowing if it's the first, second, third, etc. result would be enough.

Here is an example of a search with more than one result. (This is a public site, so you can try it yourself.)

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You can use Extract data from web page to extract the results into a table and then use Find or replace in data table to find which row contains the address you are looking for.
I would, however, suggest avoiding keystrokes here and instead use Press button in web page and use the following selector: span:contains("%Address%") where %Address% stores the address you need.
As you can see, the <span> elements actually contain the address in their value:
(this view is from the Chrome developer tools, inspecting the search results).
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Thank you @Agnius! I didn't get a chance to try to implement what you mentioned until now. Quick question: if I am clicking on the entry that has the address in the span, is there really any value in figuring out on what row the address is found in the search results? Seems like I could just do a check to see if the address appears anywhere on the search results web page and, if so, click on the span containing it. Is that correct?

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@Agnius wrote:
I would, however, suggest avoiding keystrokes here and instead use Press button in web page and use the following selector: span:contains("%Address%") where %Address% stores the address you need.
As you can see, the <span> elements actually contain the address in their value:
@Agnius I can't find a way to do with the press button action. It seems like I can only select items currently in the browser and I can't edit them to put in the search text you suggested. What am I missing?

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You need to add the UI element and then modify its selector. See this article on how to customize a selector and pass a variable value to it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors
Also this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PcyBa22Jj8&ab_channel=Thomas%22Shaky%22Petersen
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