Re: WWW::Mechanize click_button

[amarquis]

That's interesting. Does Mechanize support Javascript? I looked through the docs quickly and didn't see anything.

The button element has been around for quite some time, the only reason I could think of for not supporting clicking them is that in practical use their clicks are grabbed by a Javascript event handler and processed that way. I see buttons of type submit fairly rarely.

Specific to your question: I tried to get Mechanize to click using the "click" method, supplying the name of the button, but that didn't work either. Is it possible, in your situation, to cheat and do a substitution of submit buttons to submit inputs?

Edit: L~R's source dive makes sense, the best solution I can think of is still to cheat and sub out the button for an input before Mechanize does the handling. (Oh, and maybe submit a bug against HTML::Form, asking for button type="submit" tags to be handled?)

[talexb]

That's interesting. Does Mechanize support Javascript? I looked through the docs quickly and didn't see anything.

Then you didn't read the WWW::Mechanize::FAQ -- it's probably the most amusing Perl FAQ I've ever read. And apparently people *still* write to Andy asking about JavaScript support. I managed to squirm around that challenge by using Test::WWW:Mechanize on my CGI::Application web application in which I use a few bits of JavaScript -- mostly to pop-up alerts that say "Are you sure?" to confirm various delete operations.

Seems to work fine.

[Limbic~Region]

talexb,
When I mentioned WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::JavaScript to Andy the other night on #perl (freenode), he was unaware of its existance. Hopefully the module author will continue to work on it because it would make a lot of people happy.

[Limbic~Region]

amarquis,
Oh, and maybe submit a bug against HTML::Form, asking for button...

Actually, I just looked into that too. It seems that bug was filed 2 years ago.

[amarquis]

Seriously, man, stop bringing in your facts and hard information, it's making my idle speculation look bad!

:)