spx2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I want to get the links of a page in the order that they appear(top to bottom).
I have tried with WWW::Mechanize with no result.
I was thinking about using HTML::TreeBuilder wich I'm sure could do this
but doesn't WWW::Mechanize have something like this ?
The links I'm trying to get are threads of a forum and I believe the single way to
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Re: regarding order of links with WWW::Mechanize
by jasonk (Parson) on Jan 22, 2008 at 18:40 UTC

    WWW::Mechanize does return the links in the order they appear in the source, however CSS makes it fairly easy for things to be displayed on the page in a different order than they are in the source.


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