Hi All,

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I have a button in a website I can't work out how to press. It's not in a form so mechanize doesn't work, I've tried IEAutomation. I'm working with IE 10 and chrome so mechanize::firefox isn't an option. Trying to click the button on the line marked with (*)

The solution needs to be in perl (so it can be called from inside another application).

    <html>
     <head>
     </head>
     <body>
      <table>
       <tr>
        <td>
        <td>
         <table>
          <tr>
           <td>
            <!-- start of toolbar Main -->
            <table>
             <tr>
              <td>
               <table>
                <tr class="buttonPad">
                </tr>
                <tr>
       (*)       <td nowrap="true" valign="top" class="button"><a id="
+S7674" accesskey="S" class="button" title="SEARCH" onclick="dispatch(
+'S7674');"><u>S</u>></td>
                </tr>
               </table>
              </td>
              <td</td>
             </tr>
            </table>
          </td>
          </tr>
         </table>
        </td>
        </td>
       </tr>
      </table>
     </body>
    </html>

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Here's what I have:

    my $content = get($funky);
    
    my $tree = HTML::Tree->new();
    
    $tree->parse($content);
    
    my ($title) = $tree->look_down( '_tag' , 'a' );
    my $atag = "";
    foreach $atag ( $tree->look_down( _tag => q{a}, 'class' => 'button
+', 'title' => 'SEARCH' ) ) 
    {
        print $atag->attr('id'), "\n";
    }
    my $ie = Win32::IEAutomation->new( visible => 0, maximize => 0);
    $ie->gotoURL($funky);
    $ie->getButton('id:', $atag )->Click();

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I get "Can't call method "Click" on an undefined value". Anyone got a bright idea? Cheers Micro

In reply to web automation button clicking problems by MicrobicTiger

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