I've got a form in WordPress that uses the "Chosen" jquery plugin for drop down <select> fields. I'm having a tough time automating these fields with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox. The website for the plugin is here.

When I click on the div tag associated with the drop down, it just hangs. Here is the code I'm using to click on it:

$mech->click({xpath => '//div[@id="saved_venue_chosen"]'}, synchronize
+ => 0);

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The synchronize => 0 bit is supposed to prevent the script from waiting for a response from the server. However, I'm thinking that because clicking on the div tag causes jquery to change the classes of the div tag, it might be confusing WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.

I tried this:

    my $i = $mech->xpath('//div[@id="saved_venue_chosen"]', one => 1);
+ 
    $i->__event('focus');
    $i->__event('click');

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It didn't work. Any other workarounds I might try?

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