How to use VBA to search in Internet Explorer? - vba

I am new here/to programming. I am trying to use VBA to input some text into a webpage through internet explorer.
I am able to open explorer through VBA and navigate to the page, but I am unable to enter text in the searchbar. When I click "inspect element" on the search bar, it returns this:
<input class="ui-autocomplete-input" id="la-input"
maxlength="2147483647"
placeholder="Search by Name, Last Name, First Name, or Account Name"
autocomplete="off">
This is the code I am trying to modify to get to run:
'get a reference to the search form, by finding its id in the
'web page's document object model
Dim ieElement As Object
Set ieElement = ieApp.document.getElementByID("search")
'search box is composed of text box (item 0) and button (item 1)
'set value of text box to what we're searching for
ieElement(0).Value = "Excel VBA courses"
'click the button!
ieElement(1).Click
Thank you!!

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