Executing JavaScript using selector with a colon

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I'm trying to read values from a web page using the "Execute a JavaScript in Safari" actions. This mostly works very well.

But some of the values are identified with id's that have embedded colons. Ex.

"N10:PayElementRunAmount:0"

I know I have to escape the colons so my js to retrieve what I need, (that works in the browser's console), is:

document.querySelector("#N10\\:PayElementRunAmount\\:0").innerText

But my KM action (to save the value in a variable) returns nothing. I've tried varying numbers of backslashes to see if I needed to "escape the escape", so to speak, but no luck with any of it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi and welcome,
Can you share what you have so far, and the URL or an example

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Well, bugger me, it's working now. I swear I tried this already but anyway, I created a new action:

Execute JavaScript in Safari
document.querySelector("#N10\\:PayElementRunAmount\\:0").innerText
Save trimmed results without errors to variable “RunAmount”.
Stop macro and notify on failure.

Now my variable has a value.

I can't share the URL since it's private but here's a snippet of the page:

image

So, problem solved I guess. :smiley:

Thanks

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Hey @Swimszoots - you’re learning fast! Especially the part about when @hello asks he expects results :wink:

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