I have a webpage that requires a login upon loading. After entering your credentials, you are taken to a page where there is a search box I want to fill out, as the search box is filled out, there are suggestions that start showing up, you'll have to pick from the dropdown list (it's an input box, I'm guessing javascript is populating a list you can choose from). I want the result of the search box.

In short:

  1. Log in
  2. Enter data into search box
  3. Pick from suggested results
  4. Store results in variable

Right now I just use the WWW::Mechanize module and have the login part done. I do not know how to access the next page where I can enter data into a search field. I was thinking I could do something with $results.

Please advise. 
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('http://loginpage/Account/LogOn');
my $result = $mech->submit_form(
    form_number =>  '1',
    fields => {
        'UserName'  => '$username',
        'Password'  => "$pw",
    },
);

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In reply to Navigating multiple layers webpage by ttran18

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