Through use of Firefox and firebug, I have determined that a page I would like to automate my interactions with using perl has the majority of its HTML code apparently controlled by a single javascript. When I first load the page with firebug on, I see:

body < html.js

in the status bar. All of the links, forms, etc. I need to interact with on the page can be found in the HTML code window of Firebug. The strange thing is that if I right click on the page itself and click "view source", none of that HTML is visible, and neither is any reference to this so-called html.js script. Is there any perl module that can get at that HTML code that's apparently hidden inside html.js?

In reply to how to access HTML within a javascript by Special_K

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