excel vba - VBA and IE8 - enter value and search -

i have intranet based website @ work i'd input sku's , scrape data comes excel sheet using vba , ie8. waiting on access license approvals , approval gain access our ibm as400 server. ie8 not support getelementsbyname, , search bar has no id, of examples i've found online aren't relevant.

sub scraper()  dim item long  item = "10011" 'this placed in loop multiple searches  set objie = createobject("internetexplorer.application")   objie.visible = true ' navigate , download web page   objie.navigate "http://**********.aspx" while objie.readystate <> 4 or objie.busy     doevents loop  objie.document.getelementsbyname("input").value = item   end sub 

here's photo of inspected element tree. can see, there name (input) , class (st1), no id. how can search data input area? stuck ie8, although have access chrome well...