Can't get GM to click a button after filling form

[SmileYaDead]

So I have this to fill a text field, but I can't get the script to click the button after the text is filled:

window.onload = function() {
document.forms['giveform'].elements['or_name'].value = "myvalue";
}


This works for another script:

document.getElementsByName('elementname')[0].click();

Oh, and if it could close the tab where the script was running, it would be awesome!

+rep for help

[Nyu]

I remember two more ways to click a button besides the one you mentioned.
First is using jQuery

$('[name="elementname"]').click();

It doesnt always work on GM, but it should if you add this at the top:

// @require       http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.js

Also looking for it by tags like this:

document.getElementsByClassName("classname")[0].getElementsByTagName("form")[0].getElementsByTagName("input")[0].click();

I dont know how to close a tab though, never done it before...

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Oh, i just remembered another one, if the button is in a form, something like this should work:

document.forms.giveform.submit();

[SmileYaDead]

I remember two more ways to click a button besides the one you mentioned.
First is using jQuery

$('[name="elementname"]').click();

It doesnt always work on GM, but it should if you add this at the top:

// @require       http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.js

Also looking for it by tags like this:

document.getElementsByClassName("classname")[0].getElementsByTagName("form")[0].getElementsByTagName("input")[0].click();

I dont know how to close a tab though, never done it before...

--
Oh, i just remembered another one, if the button is in a form, something like this should work:

document.forms.giveform.submit();

The last one worked nicely, had to add a delay for it to not jump forward of the fill form part, but that's not a biggie

[npm]

To close a tab you can use:

close();
or
window.close();

both are the same since window is implied.

[SmileYaDead]

To close a tab you can use:

close();
or
window.close();

both are the same since window is implied.

Doesn't it only apply to windows/tabs generated by the script itself?

[npm]

Doesn't it only apply to windows/tabs generated by the script itself?

I might be wrong but if I recall right each window(tab) have its own window object which is a global object that represents the window(tab) itself and all of them have the objects, functions and variables avaible automatically. Did u try it?

[SmileYaDead]

I might be wrong but if I recall right each window(tab) have its own window object which is a global object that represents the window(tab) itself and all of them have the objects, functions and variables avaible automatically. Did u try it?

Ah, you were right, it worked indeed!