VBA getElementById with dynamic ID

Question

I've been searching this whole forum, msdn and specialised tutorials and I can't find the answer for VBA: How can I make the getElementById work in an access VBA module where the id to find is dynamic?

Let's see the html code:

<DIV id=rowToolTipContainer>
<DIV class=contactsCard id=resultsTooltip1122286Contents style="DISPLAY: none">
<TABLE class="shadow-box tooltip">
<TBODY>

And how I'm trying to find it:

Dim ResultDIV As HTMLDivElement   
Set ResultDIV = HTMLDoc.getElementById("resultsTooltip*")

Let me say the html returned has a different id (the numbers change) depending on each result so the id for each DIV is always:

id=resultsTooltipxxxxxxxContents where xxxxxxx are always different numbers

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try something like this one:

Dim ContainerDiv As HTMLDivElement, ResultDIV As HTMLDivElement

Set ContainerDiv = HTMLDoc.getElementById("rowToolTipContainer")
For Each ResultDIV In ContainerDiv.GetElementsByTagName("div")
    If ResultDIV.ID Like "resultsTooltip*Contents" Then

        '' What do you want to do here?

        Exit For
    End If
Next

Answer 2

1. Identify the closest parent tag that always contains the ID (manually, by looking at your HTML).
2. Enumerate all descendant <div>s of that tag, testing their ID property with Like.