The method ->click only works with elements contained within <form> elements, unless you directly hand it elements to click on.

The easiest way is likely to get the element you want, and then hand it to the click method (or, as shown below, do it all in one call):

use warnings;
use strict;

use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);
use WWW::Mechanize::Chrome;

Log::Log4perl->easy_init($ERROR);

my $html = <<'HTML';
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Testing</title>

  </head>

  <body>
    <button type="button" id="test-button" onclick="alert('Ta-daa')">T
+est</button>
    <input type="file" name="fileupload" value="fileupload" id="fileup
+load">
  </body>
</html>
HTML

my $m = WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new(
    autoclose => 0,
);

$m->update_html($html);

my $button = $m->selector('#test-button', single => 1);

print "Clicking on button with content:" . $button->get_attribute('inn
+erHTML');
print "\n";

$m->sleep(1);
$m->click({ dom => $button });

# Or, all in one go

$m->sleep(1);
$m->click({ selector => '#test-button' });

$m->sleep(10);

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I have removed the external reference to jquery and other stuff that needed external files.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize::Chrome: Click on button not part of a form by Corion
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Chrome: Click on button not part of a form by stevieb

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