The last line you tried should work if you wrap it inside of a hash -- assuming there is an event that is triggered by clicking the div you've selected. The WWW::Mechanize::Firefox documentation mentions that you have to use the hash along with the 'dom' key. The example below adds a custom event to ensure that there is an event tied to clicking of the div:

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use feature 'say';

use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new( autodie => 1 );

# Load up google search
$mech->autoclose_tab(0);
$mech->get('http://google.ca');
say "Google retrieved" if $mech->success();

# Make sure the bottom line turns red if we successfully click the <di
+v>
my $str = "
        var tmp = document.getElementById('prm-pt');
        tmp.onclick = function() {
            this.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
        };
";
$mech->eval_in_page( $str );
say "Event set" if $mech->success();

# Type something in the search box
$mech->form_id( 'tsf' );
$mech->set_fields( q => 'time' );

# Click the div, the bottom line should turn red
my @divs = $mech->xpath('//div[@id="prm-pt"]');
$mech->click( { dom => $divs[0], synchronize => 0 } );
say "<div> clicked" if $mech->success();

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Now that I think of it, all that was missing from your first example (with 'xpath' key) was having the parameters wrapped inside of curly brackets {}. Without them, the synchronize key is ignored, and resulted in an infinite wait.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox clicking on a div doesn't work by Loops
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Firefox clicking on a div doesn't work by bbrown25

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