I wonder if anyone can help me, I have on my site, a few articles, I would like to edit, the articles are on three pages, with three articles per page, each having the url link article, so far I am a little stuck on automatically going through each article on each page and editing them(as the links are javascript, to select a field I understand it would something similar to $mech->field('nameoffield, $value); however suppose the selection was a scroll down menu? with javascript : something like <script scr=... JSActions=[variable,"response1",variable2,"response2"</script>), and then moving onto the next page and editing them, and the next page. So far this is what I have come up with: 
#! perl\bin\perl


use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use WWW::Mechanize;




my $text ='My new article...';

my $text2 = 'My second article...';

my $text3 = 'My third article...';

   my $start;

     my $mech1 = WWW::Mechanize->new(
 agent      => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)',
  cookie_jar => {});


$mech1->get("http://www.example.com");



$mech1->form(1);

$mech1->field('username',"username");




$mech1->field('password',"password");


$mech1->click("login");

if ($mech1->success){ print "successfully logged on \n";} else{print  
+!$;}

$mech1->follow_link( text_regex => qr/Articles/i );

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#There are 3 articles per page all having the text_regex articles, one underneath the other for ($start=1;$start<=3;$start++) { #at this particular point I have 3 articles per page as stated(there are scroll down options to edit the articles or delete the articles, but they are in javascript as stated earlier), and there are 3 pages, I would like to edit the articles on the first page with the same text in $text, and the the next three articles on the next page with the text in $text2, and the next three articles on the last page with $text3, I am a little stuck :( on how to proceed from here. $mech1->click("Article1"); #I have 3 articles at this point, all having the link article, but three of them of different lines, one underneath the other, I would like to go through each of them, click on the edit article link(which is in javascript, as well as the delete article link, but I would like to select the edit article link) and submit it with the amended text in $text..$text2...$text3. 
  if( $mech1->success){print "success \n";} else{print  !$;}
 $mech1->click("Edit article");

    if( $mech1->success){print "Editing article \n";} else{print  !$;}

$mech1->field('text',"$text");

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I would like to do this for each articles on each page, after clicking on the text_reg of articles(by selection of articles, however it is in javascript), then clicking on the edit button, and filling in the new text 
$mech1->click("submit");

if ($mech1->success){ print "article successfully submitted \n";} else
+{print
!$;}

}

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Would appreciate any help

In reply to editing an article that also uses javascript with mechanize by coder57

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