>>I am having a problem using DOM to automate the submition of forms through IE5. I am following the article in June in Foxpro Advisor. However, it seems that when I submit to the site I am working with, it doesn't do the same thing as when I actually click on the submit button manually, and the reason I suspect is because in the HTML form it seems that the submit assigns a value to a variable (in this case a variable .finished). I don't know how to replicate this through the submit method since it doesn't seem that the submit method accepts parameters. I am trying oIE.Document.Forms(0).submit. I also thought that perhaps assigning the form variable manually before submiting the form would do the job, but this variable actually has a dot in front of the name, so I don't know how to do that either.
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>oIE.Document.Body.Form1.MySubmitButton.Click()

Actually, the fact that the button name is ".finished" is preventing me from doing a lot of things I would like to. I can do this:

? oIE.Document.forms(0).item(36).name

And it returns:
.finished

However, I cannot do this:
? oIE.Document.forms(0).item(".finished").name

I get OLE error code 0x8002006: unknown name

And of course I cannot do this, which is what I want:

? oIE.Document.forms(0).item(".finished").name

Isn't this some sort of bug? If it lets an object be named .finished (the submit button in this case), shouldn't it let me find it?

I guess I could scan all the items of the form and find the one I need, but I'd rather just be able to jump to the one I need.