Thanks Corion!

So here it is: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
  
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(
    launch => '/usr/bin/firefox',
    tab=>'current',
    frames => 1,

);


$mech->get('http://www.example.com');

# wait for JS to render the login button
my $retries = 10;
#by xpath
while ($retries-- and ! $mech->is_visible( {xpath => '//*[@id="login"]
+' } )) { 
       sleep 1;
};
   die "Timeout while waiting for site to appear" if 0 > $retries;
print "waitiing retries = $retries\n";

#type the uid & pw
$mech->field( username => 'username'); #by name
$mech->field( password => 'password'); #by name
#sync cos hangs here otherwise
$mech->click( {id=>'login', synchronize => 0}); #by id here

my $string;
my @elements = $mech->xpath('xpath/selector/to/secret/question'); #by 
+xpath here
for(my $x=0;$x<=$#elements;$x++){
    $string = $elements[$x]->{innerHTML}; #get the string
    print "secret question is elements[$x] = $string\n"; #in case ther
+e are multiple matches
}
#ok you need some regex here to decide which question is being asked a
+nd reply with corresponding answer
$mech->field( SecQuestion => 'secret answer'); #by name here

$mech->click( {id=>"confirm", synchronize => 0});

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There seemed to be issues about the match of the secret question array having multiple responses. 

You asked for many elements but seem to only want a single item.
Did you forget to pass the 'single' option with a true value?
Pass 'all => 1' to suppress this message and receive the count of item
+s.

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I think it was trouble shooting lines of code I had added that put me in the wrong iframe... or something.

Thanks for the hints, they really helped!

z

In reply to Re^2: How to get WWW::Mechaize::Firefox to get text? by zerocred
in thread How to get WWW::Mechaize::Firefox to get text? by zerocred

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