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POHow to programmatically set the value of a WebKit password text field?
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copied!<p><strong>Update: this question is bunk. Move along, nothing to see here. You <em>can</em> set the value of the password text field from either JS or ObjC. I was wrong.</strong></p> <p>I have a WebKit-based Cocoa app which loads an HTML document containing an HTML form in a <code>WebView</code>. The HTML form contains a password text field like:</p> <pre><code><form name="foo"> <input type="password" name="bar"> </form> </code></pre> <p>I'd like to set the value of this text field programmatically (from Objective-C if possible, but I'll do whatever works).</p> <p>I believe WebKit (and every other modern browser) implements a JavaScript security feature which prevents JS scripts from setting this value programmatically.</p> <p>Unfortunately, it seems that the same security restriction applies to Objective-C, as I can't seem to set the value using ObjC either. While the JS restriction is reasonable, the ObjC seems a bit unreasonable.</p> <p>Is there any way to programmatically set the value of this field (short of bundling a custom WebKit in my app that has been altered to allow this)? I'm open to any suggestion.</p> <p>Here's what I've tried in ObjC:</p> <pre><code>DOMHTMLDocument *doc = (DOMHTMLDocument *)[webView mainFrameDocument]; DOMHTMLFormElement *formEl = (DOMHTMLFormElement *)[[doc forms] namedItem:@"foo"]; DOMHTMLInputElement *inputEl = (DOMHTMLInputElement *)[[formEl elements] namedItem:@"bar"]; [inputEl setValue:@"baz"]; </code></pre> <p>this has no effect.</p>

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