I'm trying to create a PowerShell script to open Internet Explorer, navigate to , fill in the email and password inputs and submit the form or click the log in button.

The problem is that, when filling the inputs using:

• document.getElementById("email").value="123"
• document.getElementById("password").value="123"

I have the following results:

• When I submit the form with document.forms[0].submit() the pages reload with URL =&password= and nothing happens
• When I click the button, using javascript or manually, it considers that the inputs are empty

So, is there a way to work around this? Either using purely javascript or PowerShell (I wish to keep the IE window invisible)

Thanks!

I'm trying to create a PowerShell script to open Internet Explorer, navigate to https://clockify.me/login , fill in the email and password inputs and submit the form or click the log in button.

The problem is that, when filling the inputs using:

• document.getElementById("email").value="123"
• document.getElementById("password").value="123"

I have the following results:

• When I submit the form with document.forms[0].submit() the pages reload with URL https://clockify.me/login?email=&password= and nothing happens
• When I click the button, using javascript or manually, it considers that the inputs are empty

So, is there a way to work around this? Either using purely javascript or PowerShell (I wish to keep the IE window invisible)

Thanks!

• javascript
• powershell
• angular2-changedetection
• clockify

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• Have you tried doing Invoke-RestMethod against the site and sending your auth information in the headers? – trebleCode Commented Jun 7, 2018 at 18:41

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Even though you are changing the values of the input DOM objects, that is not enough to trigger the change detection of the underlying Angular libraries, thus making the form appear 'empty'.

The following pure JS example works on Chrome, but I have not tested it in Internet Explorer:

let email = document.getElementById("email");
let password = document.getElementById("password");
let button = document.getElementsByTagName("button")[0];

email.value = '[email protected]';
password.value = 'yourpassword';

// Trigger change detection
email.dispatchEvent(new Event('input'));
password.dispatchEvent(new Event('input'));

button.click();

In case dispatchEvent does not work in IE, you could try with createEvent and initEvent. See dispatchEvent not working in IE11