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Asked: 2026-06-17T06:21:08+00:00

I am trying to use watin to mimic login to live.com using c#. code

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I am trying to use watin to mimic login to live.com using c#. code is below.

IE myIE = new IE("http://login.live.com/");  
myIE.TextField(Find.ByName("login")).TypeText("abc@abc.com"); 
myIE.TextField(Find.ByName("passwd")).TypeText("1234"); 

myIE.Button(Find.ByValue("Sign in")).Click();

However it always failed to find the textfield:

WatiN.Core.Exceptions.ElementNotFoundException: Could not find INPUT (hidden) or INPUT (password) or INPUT (text) or INPUT (textarea) or TEXTAREA element tag matching criteria: Attribute ‘name’ equals ‘login’ at http://login.live.com/

The sample code in home page of http://watin.org/ works fine for www.google.com.

Did I miss something or is there anything special on http://login.live.com that prevents watin to work?

PS: I am running windows 7 64bit. VS 2008 with .net 3.5

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re hitting issues because the email field you’re trying to type in is an HTML5 element.

    Create the TextFieldExtended class as defined in this SO question: WatiN support for HTML5 tags

    Then your code will be like the below:

    ie.GoTo("http://login.live.com/");
ie.ElementOfType<TextFieldExtended>(Find.ByName("login")).TypeText("thisismyusername@here.com");
ie.TextField(Find.ByName("passwd")).TypeText("thisismypassword");
ie.Button(Find.ByValue("Sign in")).Click();

    Tested on Watin2.1, IE9, Win7-64.

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