Re: Checking onclick attribute of an anchor tag with WWW:::Mechanize::Firefox

Your code is good, but I'm not sure what you want to do:

#!perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new();
$mech->update_html(<<HTML);
<html>
<h1>Test</h1>
<a href="http://google.de">Google</a>
<a href="asdf.html" onclick="javascript:alert('hello');">Say Hello</a>
</html>
HTML

my @links = $mech->find_all_links_dom(url_regex => 'asdf.html');
foreach my $link (@links) {
    #print $link->{onclick};
    print $link->{click};
};
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This gives you the onclick attribute, but that attribute is a (compiled) Javascript function. If you want to get at the text, use -getAttribute function (see the DOM documentation).

MozRepl::RemoteObject is a bridge between Perl and the (DOM) functions and data structures of Firefox, so if you want to do deeper work, you will have to learn about the DOM and Firefox.

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Re^2: Checking onclick attribute of an anchor tag with WWW:::Mechanize::Firefox by Riales (Hermit) on Mar 05, 2012 at 17:28 UTC
Hi Corion, Ah, perfect--`getAttribute` was what I was looking for. It never occurred to me to try the DOM documentation. I guess I'll know for next time now! Thanks!	[reply] [d/l]