Mechanize select with "id" or "class" other than "name".

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, have a small Issue with mechanize. My target source code didn't have a "name" field associated with it. but its having "id" and "class".

Target source code look like this

<select id="keyword-country-option" class="dropdown">
                        <option value="Choose Location">Choose Region<
+/option>
                        <option value="AMEA">Asia, Middle East &amp; A
+frica</option>            
                        <option value="Canada">Canada</option>
                        <option value="Europe">Europe</option>
                        <option value="Latin America">Latin America</o
+ption>
                        <option value="United States">United States</o
+ption>
                    </select>
[download]

I wish to use $mech->select($name, $value); Is there any way to achieve this..? Thank you.

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Re: Mechanize select with "id" or "class" other than "name". by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 12, 2012 at 09:39 UTC
`->select` uses HTML::Form`->find_input`, so you should be able to specify an `id` by using a `#` prefix: `$mech->select('#keyword-country-option', 'Canada');` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Mechanize select with "id" or "class" other than "name". by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 UTC
Thank you...	[reply]