Beginner help: completing web form project

[user70]

im quite new to all this but im starting an ambitious project which involves interacting with a web form, collecting data and completing calculation from that data to reuse in the form using my intuition so far I have managed to direct chrome to the form and fill in the initial search box using a path,

my first issue is that my form input will only be effective if I put a 10 second or so delay in front of it as the form isn't fully loaded after the url is pulled up and I have logged in.

Is there an effective way to fill this form reliably without putting a time delay before it?

the next problem I have encountered is that my search string doesn't activate a search, however, if I select the form which was just automatically filled by my script then press backspace it begins to pull results from the search.

thanks and apologies in advance

[user70]

edit: I have solved the problem of the search not actioning without pressing space

[JMichaelTX]

@user70

my first issue is that my form input will only be effective if I put a 10 second or so delay in front of it as the form isn't fully loaded after the url is pulled up and I have logged in.

Is there an effective way to fill this form reliably without putting a time delay before it?

Yes. You can check for a HTML element that must be present when the page/form is loaded.

In order for us to help you, we need:

1. Page URL, or HTML code (posted using Code Block) around the area of interest on the page.
2. Screenshot of the region of the page you are trying to automate.

@user70

the next problem I have encountered is that my search string doesn't activate a search, however, if I select the form which was just automatically filled by my script then press backspace it begins to pull results from the search.

You probably need to click on a submit button. Again, we need the same as above.