Re: WWW::Mechanize and text input outside form

No. Or rather, in principle yes, but it won't work as you want it to work, as input fields outside of form tags will never be submitted by the browser, except via Javascript. And WWW::Mechanize does not understand Javascript.

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize and text input outside form by Kanji (Parson) on Jan 05, 2005 at 22:16 UTC
Although you could rewrite the HTML so that the `input` field was inside the `form` tags... `# untested; salt to taste my $html = $mech->content; $html =~ s/(<input[^>]+>)(.?<form[^>]>)/$2$1/; $mech->update_html($html);` [download] --k.	[reply] [d/l]


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