I'm trying to select the main menu ID of this page http://greyhoundstats.co.uk/index.php labeled ("menu_wholesome")
in order to get their hyperlinks later on. In the HTML document, there are two tags with this ID, a <div>
and its child element <ul>
, but when i search for them with the code below, i get the object variable not set" error.
Option Explicit
Public Const MenuPage As String = "http://greyhoundstats.co.uk/index.php"
Sub BrowseMenus()
Dim XMLHTTPReq As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
Dim HTMLDoc As New MSHTML.HTMLDocument
Dim MainMenuList As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
Dim aElement As MSHTML.IHTMLElementCollection
Dim ulElement As MSHTML.IHTMLUListElement
Dim liElement As MSHTML.IHTMLLIElement
XMLHTTPReq.Open "GET", MenuPage, False
XMLHTTPReq.send
HTMLDoc.body.innerText = XMLHTTPReq.responseText
Set MainMenuList = HTMLDoc.getElementById("menu_wholesome")(0) '<-- error happens here
End Sub
Anyone knows why getElementsById can't find the refered ID, although it is part of the HTML document set? I know that this method is supposed to return a unique ID, but when we have the same one refered by other tags i also know that i will return the first ID found which should be the <div id="menu_wholesome">
part of the HTML page being requested.