Why is the error "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020101" thrown when calling getElementById()?

Question

PowerShell

I am writing a script in Powershell.
1. When trying to get an element into a variable, an exception is thrown.

$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.application"
$ie.visible = 1
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true) { Start-Sleep 1 }
$ie.Navigate("http://vk.com")
$ie.Document.getElementById('quick_email').value = 'mail'
$ie.Document.getElementById('quick_pass').value = 'pass'
$ie.Document.getElementById("quick_login_button").click();

If for getting the form I found a workaround

$ie.Document.forms[0].elements[8].value = 'email'
$ie.Document.forms[0].elements[9].value = 'pass'

, then for the button and the event I can not find it.
2. How to get a collection of DOM elements? Not only forms, but other types?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Your code works OK for me like this:

$ie = New-Object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.application"
$ie.visible = 1
$ie.Navigate("http://vk.com")
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true) { Start-Sleep 1 }
$ie.Document.getElementById('quick_email').value = 'mail'
$ie.Document.getElementById('quick_pass').value = 'pass'
$ie.Document.getElementById("quick_login_button").click();

swapped lines 3 and 4.
win10, ps5, ie11