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rgabor
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Mar 4, 2010, 2:19 PM

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Win32::IE::Mechanize	Can't Post

Dear All,

I am new in this forum, and I hope that someone can help me figure out the following.

I am using Perl and Win32::IE::Mechanize to automate some task in my job. Before I have used WWW::Mechanize, but because of Java-scripts I had to switch.

I can successfully connect to the site, read and submit data, however I have an issue when I want to set value for Select Option.

Mechanize just cannot find the select control, so alway trow back an error.

I have straggling with this since few days, and I do not found anything yet.

This is the HTML code with the select

Code

<select ID="selectTest" onchange="DoSomething(0);">		 
	<option value="">- Select Type -</option>		 
	<option value="1">1</option>		 
	<option value="2">2</option>		 
	<option value="3">3</option>		 
	<option value="4">4</option>	 
</select>

And this is the Perl code to set value.

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
use warnings; 
use strict; 
 
use Win32::IE::Mechanize; 
 
my $mech = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 1); 
$mech->get('some_url'); 
 
$mech->form_name( 'form1' ); 
 
$mech->select( 'selectTest', '2' );

If I run this, it will trow an error saying that Select 'selectTest' not found.

Can someone help me on this please?

Many thanks.
Regards,
Gabor

rgabor
New User

Mar 4, 2010, 3:00 PM

Post #2 of 3 (608 views)

Re: [rgabor] Win32::IE::Mechanize [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hello again,

So far I have found the issue.

The problem is that the Select tag having only ID but not name.

If I have this, the my code works:

Code

<select name="selectTest" ID="selectTest" onchange="DoSomething(0);" style="font-size:10px;">

I am not the one who developed the site so I cannot add name for select element.

Is there a way to call Select using ID instead of Name?

Thanks.

rgabor
New User

Mar 7, 2010, 1:55 AM

Post #3 of 3 (590 views)

Re: [rgabor] Win32::IE::Mechanize [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hello All,

I see that many people have the same question while I was looking for solution on Google, however no one have the solution.

After hours/days of Mechanize analysis, I can see now that Mechanize looking for INPUT elements only by their name tag. No ID or whatsoever.

What I did actually, I have changed the source of Win32::IE::Mechanize, so now I can look for INPUT elements by their NAME or ID tag.

Code

use warnings; 
use strict; 
 
use Win32::IE::Mechanize; 
my $ie= Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 1); 
 
#Get the url 
$ie->get($url); 
 
#Select a form by ID 
$ie->form_id('form1'); 
 
# OR Select a form by NAME 
$ie->form_name('form1'); 
 
#Find the SELECT element by ID 
$ie->select_id('select1', '3'); 
 
#Find the SELECT element by NAME 
$ie->select_NAME('select1', '3'); 
 
#And also for other INPUT elements like text 
$ie->field_id('text1', 'test'); 
 
#or 
$ie->field_name('text1', 'test');

So finally it works.

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