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Good day to you all!

Once again, I ran into the same silly problem related to selectors. I'm embarrassed to ask you for help on such simple issues and would like to understand the principle.

Whenever I want to grab the element I want on a web page, PAD doesn't catch them.

 

I recently created a similar thread here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/I-can-t-press-the-button/m-p/2068261 and I liked @Nived_Nambiar's method.

I believe @Nived_Nambiar used jQuery Selectors or CSS Selectors (not sure exactly) in his solution. I used his suggested method, and I clicked the button. But his process only works when it gets the element's href. And if the element doesn't have an href, what then?

 

I wanted to learn from you and understand how to use jQuery for PAD. Maybe you have a table to look at ready-made and easy-to-understand solutions and apply them to PAD.

 

I would appreciate it if you could get the information to me in simple language with examples.

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  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @absentia8 

     

    I have used jquery selector there for finding the ui element.

     

    So if you want to click on that element, you can use click link on webpage action 

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1679747301211.png

     

    selector

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1679747321229.png

     

     

    Another thing is that there is no need of hovering in this case, you can launch that page, instead of clicking tools > then your photo on wall , you can use click link on webpage with above selector, it would help in navigating to that page.

     

    Another way to try is the way suggested by @OkanAT  in the our previous thread. 

     

    Also to learn jquery selector you can refer this link

    https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ref_selectors.asp

     

    Hope this information helped you 

     

    Mark it as solution if it resolves ur query 

     

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