doc.GetElementsByClassname with weirdly formatted classnames

[JasperD]

Hi all,

I'm loading a HTTP response into a html document in VBA. I can get responses by saying

debug.print doc.GetElementsByTagname("a")(0).innertext

for example, but if I want to get something by classname I don't quite know how to call them as they're called like below:

\"a-link-normal\"
\"a-size-base
\"a-size-mini
\"a-expander-header

using the below doesn't give me anything - and I don't believe I can use wildcards.

debug.print doc.getelementsbyclassname("\""a-link-normal\").length

Does anyone have any pointers?
Thanks,

Jasper

[AB33]

My wieldiest guess is treat it like JavaScript does, round double quote with a single quote and Vice versa. I do not know if you can use a escape character.

[JasperD]

I actually solved it by using a very rude approach - I just do this:

doc.body.innerHTML = Replace(http.responseText, "\" & Chr(34), Chr(34))

Which makes it not as neat as could be, but allows me to get the data I want by using the newly-formed, long class names.

[JasperD]

thanks for the swift reply AB33 - how would I implement that though?
as in VBA I still get the \ before the quote as part of the name:

debug.print doc.getElementsByTagName("a")(1).classname
\"a-link-normal\"