Inputting Text in Safari

I think you can do that by sending javascripts through AppleScript with "do javascript".

The problem is, how do you think you will address a given text box?

The answer is, you have to use the Document Object Model attached to the html file. If the file is correctly structured you can use the DOM, and javascript is the natural way of interfacing html's DOM.

Google Apple's site for DOM 2, Safari, and javascript. javascript is not too hard, furthermore you need very basic features.

Two ways of doing this.

This one you have to click in the textbox you want then run this script assuming your using Safari.
tell application "Safari"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "This is where you type the text you want inserted"
end tell
end tell

The second takes a little setup.
open the page you wanting to fill
in the view menu go to view source

then you have to find the form name, it should be something like Form name = thisform

then you need the name of the field you wanting to insert into, it should look something like this
<input name="textfield" type="text" class="form150" size="18" maxlength="256" value="">

then you can right the script using the actual form and field names

set theScript to "document.thisform.textfield.value='the text you want inserted'"
tell application "Safari"
activate
do JavaScript theScript in document 1
end tell

I posted a test page at

http://macbidder.com/textField.html

in the View menu select View Source
notice in the html code that:
the form name is form1
the field name is textfield

close the source window and run this script on my test page

set theScript to "document.form1.textfield.value='I want to insert this Text'"
tell application "Safari"
activate
do JavaScript theScript in document 1
end tell

it will put "I want to insert this Text" in the field

form1 and textfield are names I made. you will have to view the source and change to the correct names in the page your working with. also the page you want filled must be in front when you run this script

Why can't you use Marshal's first suggestion only add keystroke tab to get to the text field part.

tell application "Safari"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke tab
keystroke "This is where you type the text you want inserted"
end tell
end tell

Sorry it took so long to get back...been on vacation. If not password protected, what is the URL of the page your wanting to work with?

Marshall