Hi all,

  I have been working on a program that traverses the website of a third party company, so I have no influence on or information about the page. I've been able to successfully tick checkboxes before, but in this case there is a twist.

  The page has an input value of:

<input type="checkbox" name="selrow0" value=" " onclick="clicksel(this
+)">

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  And the 'clicksel' JS function is: 
function clicksel( itm )
{
    if (itm.checked)
    {
        if ((document._LocationSelection.sel.value != itm.name ) && ( 
+document._LocationSelection.sel.value != ""))
        {
            box = eval("document._LocationSelection." + document._Loca
+tionSelection.sel.value);
            box.checked = false;
        }
        else
        {
            document._LocationSelection.sel.value = itm.name;
        }
    }
    else if (document._LocationSelection.sel.value == itm.name)
    {
        document._LocationSelection.sel.value = "";
    }
}

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  As I understand it, the JS sets the value of the checkbox to the name of the checkbox that was ticked and unchecks any others. However, looking through WWW::Mechanize (and HTML::Form) it looks like it expects the input value (space, in this case). Why didn't they use radio? Anyway... 
my $input = $agent->current_form->find_input("selrow0", 'checkbox', 0)
+;
$input->value("selrow0");

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  And several variants of cause an error like this: 
Illegal value 'selrow0' for field 'selrow0' at ./check_avail.lib line 
+285

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  The '$input->value("selrow0");' being line 285 in this example.

  I've tried several different things, including directly accessing and changing the checkboxes object in WWW::Mechanize ('current', 'name' and 'value' hash values, specifically), but in all cases when I submit the form I get an error saying that I didn't check any boxes (error from the remote website).

  I've bashed my head against the wall on this so much that it's now flat enough to use as a table top... Help?

Digi

PS - Perl 5.8.8 on Ubuntu (devel) and Debian (server), in case it matters.

In reply to Ticking checkboxes in WWW::Mechanize, with a twist by Digimer

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