Re^3: How do I pull HTML form option values?

From what I can tell, WWW::Mechanize uses HTML::Form, which , in my opinion, does not parse the <select> tag properly.

The code looks for "multiple":

 if (exists $self->{multiple}) {
            unshift(@{$self->{menu}}, { value => undef, name => "off"}
+);
            $self->{current} = $checked ? 1 : 0;
        }
        else {
            $self->{current} = 0 if $
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which does not seem to be set anywhere.
As a result, it only pickes up the first <option>.

You will likely have to parse the raw html using HTML::TokeParser or the like, to extract the options.

See fellow un-answered sufferer at stackoverflow.

Memory fault -- brain fried

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Re^4: How do I pull HTML form option values? by beech (Parson) on Apr 04, 2018 at 21:55 UTC
From what I can tell, WWW::Mechanize uses HTML::Form, which , in my opinion, does not parse the <select> tag properly. ... excerpt from source code Hi, I doubt rt://HTML-Form has issue with select tag. On the aforementioned website, the distances in miles are provided by javascript. HTML::Form, like WWW::Mechanize, doesn't run javascript. For that you'd need WWW::Mechanize::Firefox /..::Chrome/..::PhantomJS	[reply]
Re^5: How do I pull HTML form option values? by NetWallah (Canon) on Apr 05, 2018 at 05:49 UTC
You are right ! (++) The select has an event listener that somehow manages to populate the distance options .. although I could hot figure out how it did that. In my debug attempt, I did an "inspect" of the option, and saw the options populated, so I assumed they came from HTML. Thanks for identifying the issue! Memory fault -- brain fried	[reply]
Re^6: How do I pull HTML form option values? by beech (Parson) on Apr 07, 2018 at 02:44 UTC
Hi, I used mech-dump to dump the forms on the page	[reply]