'You can look inside the ul-menu-items that are created and use Contains. 'Alternatively if you want to pick an item from the drop down with a specific value

'Result should be it selected 'ActionScript' 'Select first item with jQuery, the UL updates in response to the click event 'to adjust this, if this isn't the first autocomplete control on page This select the first ui-autocomplete-input, you may need. Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib 'kernel32' (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)ĭim ie As Object: Set ie = CreateObject('InternetExplorer.Application') Public Declare PtrSafe Sub Sleep Lib 'kernel32' (ByVal dwMilliseconds As LongPtr) You will likely need to make alterations to the CSS selectors to point to the correct elements on your page, but the methods used below should work to programmatically control the element you want.

What I've done below is used this page as a stand in for testing, which has an autocomplete control on it. Thankfully, there is a way to inject JavaScript into the browser to use the existing methods of these controls, or, jQuery itself (when loaded on the page) to make life a fair bit easier. Internet Explorer can be very tricky to automate using built in methods when working with jQuery custom controls.

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