Hi all, I need to auto submit a form which has javascript in it. The html is given below. 
<form action="/goform/formHandlerConfigureDMPName" method="post" onsub
+mit = "return validateDMPNameOnSubmit(this)">
        <td width="5%"><img src="../invis.gif" alt="" width="50" heigh
+t="30"/></td>
        <td width="45%">DMP Name:</td>
        <td width="50%"><input type="text" name="DMPName" value="Curre
+nt Name" maxlength="129"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="App
+ly"/></td>
</form>

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The output of mech-dump utility is: 
POST http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/goform/formHandlerConfigureDMPName
  DMPName=Current Name           (text)
  <NONAME>=Apply                 (submit)

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But while trying to set the current form to the desired one using the method form_with_fields(), it returns an error "No elements found for form with fields [DMPName]". 
my $input_name = 'DMPName';
my $web_url = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/DMP_config.asp';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new();
$mech->get($web_url, no_cache => 1);

$current_form = $mech->form_with_fields($input_name);

print "Present value of $input_name: " . $mech->value($input_name);

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With the above code snippet it is possible to select and set the current form to different forms in the same web page.

Any help to figure out this issue is appreciated.

In reply to Not able to select the form with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox using form_with_fields() by ajose

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