Best way to tackle this issue

Hi all,

I am working on automating a web application that is very mouse and keyboard intensive to do even simple task. I have made great progress using the Send and MouseClick x,y type of coding. I am interested in trying to make the code more robust since stuff moves around on the screen depending on the resolution as well as to try to not be quite as window position oriented.

This app is running in IE. One thought is to be able to look at the source - the following for example I would like to insert data into the password field:

<input name="ctl00$DefaultContent$txtPassword" type="password" id="ctl00_DefaultContent_txtPassword" class="FormTextInput" />

In this example I want to click the link at the word "assignment":

<td bgcolor='#f1f1f1' height='9'><font face='verdana, arial' color='#ffffff' size='1'><a class='TabText10' href='assignment.asp?sid=2&bid=131'>assignment</a></font></td>

The other thing I could use some suggestions on is how to determine what is on the display. The IE title never changes even when a different pages of data is shown.

I would also like to retrieve the value of a field like the one below:

 <input type='hidden' name='thedate' value='08/19/2013'>

I am not sure how to best try to use this information in my code and logic. Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks