click on an row in a table using Mechanize::Firefox

billg68 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a script that accesses our website, hosted by a 3rd party. I am using Mechanize::Firefox. The script proceeds successfully thru each screen, entering some data into fields, and clicking a button to go to the next screen. Finally, I arrive at the last screen which is a table, built by javascript, that contains multiple rows of items, any of which can be clicked on to get the detail screen for that item. My problem is I don't know how to click on a table item.

here is the snapshot of the Firebug window:

<table id="tbListResults" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
+ border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="tdList" style="height: auto">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<tr class="listitem">
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">
<b>CC026836</b>
</td>
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">TSX/TECHNOLOGY PKG NAVIGATION SU
+NROOF LEATHER HEATED SEATS REAR CAMERA ALL POWE</td>
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">Basque Red Pearl</td>
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">JH4CU2F62CC026836</td>
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">Certified Autoplex(27)</td>
<td onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">Available</td>
<td align="right" onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">$21,996.00</td>
<td align="right" onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">13074</td>
<td align="center" onclick="selectListItem(3348956)">0</td>
<td align="center"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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Re: click on an row in a table using Mechanize::Firefox by billg68 (Initiate) on Dec 21, 2015 at 01:13 UTC
Never mind perlmonks, I finally figured it out. `my $veh_btn = '/html/body/div/div[4]/div[1]/form/div[7]/table[3]/tbody +/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]'; @divs = $mech->xpath( $veh_btn ); $mech->click( { dom => $divs[0], synchronize => 0 } ); if ($mech->success()) { print "\n Success, we clicked the detail screen!\n"; Win32::Sound::Play("ding.wav"); Win32::Sound::Stop(); };` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: click on an row in a table using Mechanize::Firefox
by billg68 (Initiate) on Dec 21, 2015 at 01:13 UTC

Never mind perlmonks, I finally figured it out.

my $veh_btn = '/html/body/div/div[4]/div[1]/form/div[7]/table[3]/tbody
+/tr/td/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]';
@divs = $mech->xpath( $veh_btn );
$mech->click( { dom => $divs[0], synchronize => 0 } );
if ($mech->success())  {
        print "\n  Success, we clicked the detail screen!\n";
    Win32::Sound::Play("ding.wav"); Win32::Sound::Stop();
};
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