### HTML Code

I'd try working out the code that manipulates the Document Object Model (DOM) in javascript in a web browser so you can make use of better web based debugging tools.  

There are **several issues here** that a console or debugger could help out with:

* You want to get the element ID `myPoints` but in HTML it's just called `points`
* You want to get the element by ID, but you've only set the name property - 
* As long as `name` is unique to the element, you don't need to search for a `td` first
* As you can see from `<input></input>`, input elements do not have `innerText` (the text inside the `><`). Instead they have a `value` attribute
* The element exposes it's attributes and other data through the properties on the object itself.  So you can check the input's value by just looking at `.value`

Here's a javascript example of what you're trying to do:





    var value = document.getElementsByName("points")[0].value;
    console.log(value);



    <input type="text" disabled="disabled" value="300" name="points" />
        



Open the console (<kbd>F12</kbd>), and you should see `300`

### VBA

To convert it to VBA code for Excel, just make sure you uses parentheses `()` for VB arrays instead of square brackets `[]` for JS arrays:



    myPoints = Trim(Doc.getElementsByName("points")(0).Value)

That should work just fine.

### References

Since I'm not sure at what point you're failing in VB, also make sure you have all the proper web references in place in your VBA script.

Go to Tools > References > and add "Microsoft HTML Object Library" and "Microsoft Internet Controls":

![References][1]


### Demo

I created a [**demo in plunker**][2] so there would be a live site to go against instead of example.com.

Paste the following code into excel and everything should work fine:



    Public Sub GetValueFromBrowser()
        Dim ie As Object
        Dim url As String
        Dim myPoints As String
        
        url = "http://run.plnkr.co/plunks/6UTb9kHRZ363Ivhh2BPE/"
        Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
        
        With ie
          .Visible = 0
          .navigate url
           While .Busy Or .readyState <> 4
             DoEvents
           Wend
        End With
        
        Dim Doc As HTMLDocument
        Set Doc = ie.document
        
        myPoints = Trim(Doc.getElementsByName("points")(0).Value)
        Range("A1").Value = myPoints
    
    End Sub

**Output**:

![output](http://i.imgur.com/d0VU3RV.png)

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/3INl86i.png
[2]: http://plnkr.co/edit/6UTb9kHRZ363Ivhh2BPE?p=preview

I am having difficult to retrieve value `300` from the input named `points`.

Here's my HTML and VBA code.

**HTML**:



    <td id="myPower_val_9" style="visibility: visible;">
        <input type="text" disabled="disabled" value="300" name="points"></input>
    </td>

**VBA**:



    Dim ie As Object
    Dim myPoints As String

    Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
  
    With ie
      .Visible = 0
      .navigate "www.example.com"
       
       While .Busy Or .readyState <> 4 
       DoEvents
       Wend

    End With
    
    Dim Doc As HTMLDocument
    Set Doc = ie.document

    myPoints = Trim(Doc.getElementsByTagName("td")(0).getElementById("myPoints").innerText)
    Range("A1").Value = myPoints