I'm attempting my first complicated scraping project and have hit a wall. To get at the data I want to scrape, I need to submit several forms first. I'm using www:mech and got through the first form easy: 
$browser->get( $starting_url );
$browser->form_name("GS");
$browser->submit();

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This takes me to a new page with another form -- but this one has a Javascript "onClick" routine, and when I try various permutations of the following, it doesn't accept my input: This is the form code: 
<form name="gs" METHOD="post" action="" onSubmit="cntyzip()" >
  <table width=70% align="center">
    <tr>
      <td align=center colspan=2> You must either choose a <b>County <
+font
        color="#FF0000"> &nbsp;or&nbsp;</font></b> enter a <b>Zip Code
+</b></td></tr>
     <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2"> <table width = 76% align="center">
          <tr>
            <td width="16%" align=left><font size=2>County:</font></td
+>
            <td width="30%" align=left><font size=2>
              <select name="county">
                <option value="">Choose a county</option>
                <option value="01ATLANTIC">ATLANTIC</option>

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And these are two of the methods I've attempted to get the thing to go: 
$browser->form_name( "gs" );
   $browser->set_fields(
       county => '01ATLANTIC'
       
   );
   $browser->submit();

# $browser->form_name("gs");
# $browser->field( "county", "01ATLANTIC" );
#  $browser->cntyzip();

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I've tried this in both regular mech and the Win32::ie version, but no luck... Any advice?

In reply to Submitting form data to Javascript form by gebelo

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