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How do I get the id value from a WWW::Mechanize::Link object? my $id=$link->attrs->{id}; #returns nothing

That must mean there is no ID

Or, if there really is an ID, Corion didn't make that part work :) (unlikely but possible, in which case try find_link_dom)

Or can I call click and pass it the link object?

Try  ...->click( $link, synchronize => 0 ); where $link is either either from find_link_dom or from find_link

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Link get id from attrs (firefox find_link_dom)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 12, 2015 at 07:28 UTC
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      Um, http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/WWW::Mechanize::Link#$link->attrs()?

      see href and id in hash below 

      $ cat alinkswithhrefsandids.html
<html>
<body>
<a href="http://example.com/first+one" id="first"> one </a>
<a href="http://example.com/second+two" id="second"> two </a>
<a href="http://example.com/third+three" id="third"> three </a>

$ mech-dump --links file:alinkswithhrefsandids.html
http://example.com/first+one
http://example.com/second+two
http://example.com/third+three

$ perl -MData::Dump -MWWW::Mechanize -e " $u=WWW::Mechanize->new; $u->
+get( qw/ file:alinkswithhrefsandids.html /); dd( $u->links ); "

do {
  my $a = bless([
    "http://example.com/first+one",
    "one",
    undef,
    "a",
    bless(do{\(my $o = "file:alinkswithhrefsandids.html")}, "URI::file
+"),
    { href => "http://example.com/first+one", id => "first" },
  ], "WWW::Mechanize::Link");
  (
    $a,
    bless([
      "http://example.com/second+two",
      "two",
      undef,
      "a",
      \${$a->[4]},
      { href => "http://example.com/second+two", id => "second" },
    ], "WWW::Mechanize::Link"),
    bless([
      "http://example.com/third+three",
      "three",
      undef,
      "a",
      \${$a->[4]},
      { href => "http://example.com/third+three", id => "third" },
    ], "WWW::Mechanize::Link"),
  );
}

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        Ah - you're correct. I don't think that (if it is used) WWW::Mechanize::Firefox fills the ->attrs hash, and if it's plain WWW::Mechanize, then the link in question doesn't have an id= attribute set.

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