Clicking checkbox on web page using Applescript - checkbox

Question

I'm somewhat new to Applescript, and I am trying to make Applescript check a checkbox to select it. I want the checkbox to be clicked regardless of whether or not it's already checked. Here is the checkbox's location according to the Accessibility Inspector:
<AXApplication: “Safari”>
<AXWindow: “Studio”>
<AXGroup>
<AXGroup>
<AXGroup>
<AXScrollArea: “”>
<AXWebArea: “”>
<AXGroup: “”>
<AXCheckBox: “”>
Attributes:
AXRole: “AXCheckBox”
AXSubrole: “(null)”
AXRoleDescription: “check box”
AXChildren: “<array of size 0>”
AXHelp: “”
AXParent: “<AXGroup: “”>”
AXPosition: “x=1104 y=825”
AXSize: “w=18 h=19”
AXTitle: “”
AXDescription: “”
AXValue: “0”
AXFocused (W): “0”
AXEnabled: “1”
AXWindow: “<AXWindow: “Studio”>”
AXSelectedTextMarkerRange (W): “<AXTextMarkerRange 0x101937860 [0x7fff76e43fa0]>{startMarker:<AXTextMarker 0x1019378b0 [0x7fff76e43fa0]>{length = 24, bytes = 0xac01000000000000c0366e23010000001700000001000000} endMarker:<AXTextMarker 0x101938030 [0x7fff76e43fa0]>{length = 24, bytes = 0xac01000000000000c0366e23010000001700000001000000}}”
AXStartTextMarker: “<AXTextMarker 0x101938030 [0x7fff76e43fa0]>{length = 24, bytes = 0xa00000000000000098975e0d010000000000000001000000}”
AXEndTextMarker: “<AXTextMarker 0x1019378b0 [0x7fff76e43fa0]>{length = 24, bytes = 0xa200000000000000405e7812010000000000000001000000}”
AXVisited: “0”
AXLinkedUIElements: “(null)”
AXSelected: “0”
AXBlockQuoteLevel: “0”
AXTopLevelUIElement: “<AXWindow: “Studio”>”
AXTitleUIElement: “(null)”
AXAccessKey: “(null)”
AXRequired: “0”
AXInvalid: “false”
AXARIABusy: “0”
Actions:
AXPress - press
AXShowMenu - show menu
I've tried multiple methods to get this to work, and I haven't been able to. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Your question with the Accessibility Inspector info is not very helpful I am afraid.
It would help if we could see the actual elements of the web page,
Have a look at this page which I found that shows check boxes and the code that makes it up.
Each element has a name and maybe within some other element.
on the page I can use this Applescript/Javascript to check the check1 checkbox.
Hopefully this will give you an idea of how to go about it.
But remember this code snippet is tailored to this page.
Open the web page and run this applescript
tell application "Safari"
set doc to document 1
do JavaScript "document.forms['testform']['check1'].checked = true" in doc
end tell
Update: Applescript GUI
Update:2 take into account "clicked regardless of whether or not it's already checked"
Taking a punt with your Accessibility Inspector. Which is a bit useless (not your fault)
try:
activate application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
set theCheckbox to (checkbox 1 of group 3 of UI element 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of group 1 of group 2 of window 1 of application process "Safari")
set isEnabled to value of theCheckbox as boolean
if not isEnabled then
click theCheckbox
end if
end tell