WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Question

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

Hi there, I'm using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to scrape some data off a website. I'm having trouble clicking a button. I should mention that I have very little experience in perl and programming generally, so need all the help I can get. When I click the button, a new window appears (without closing the previous one). After opening this new tab, is there a way of making it the "active" one? I can't seem to get either tab to do anything after pressing the button. Thanks! :)

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Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Question by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Oct 30, 2015 at 00:30 UTC
Howdy, and welcome to the Monastery! Can you provide some further details? What site are we talking about? What's your code? It'll be much easier for the monks to help you when they're given that extra bit of information. :)	[reply]
Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox activate new tab by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2015 at 00:45 UTC
So the question is about "tabs"? Here is a hint `[ddg://WWW::Mechanize::Firefox tab] [ddg://WWW::Mechanize::Firefox active tab] [ddg://WWW::Mechanize::Firefox switch tab] [ddg://site:search.cpan.org WWW::Mechanize::Firefox switch tab]` [download] WWW::Mechanize::Firefox tab WWW::Mechanize::Firefox active tab WWW::Mechanize::Firefox switch tab site:search.cpan.org WWW::Mechanize::Firefox switch tab Yields hints like `activate => 1, # bring the tab to the foreground autoclose => 0 # to prevent autoclosing of the Tab ->closeTab tab => 'current', ->activateTab ->autoclose_tab ->tab See also Firefox::Application for how to add more than one tab and how + to manipulate windows and tabs.` [download] Thats as far as I looked because I don't use the module	[reply] [d/l] [select]