NAME

WWW::Mechanize::Link - Link object for WWW::Mechanize

SYNOPSIS

Link object to encapsulate all the stuff that Mech needs but nobody wants to deal with as an array.

Constructor

new()

    my $link = WWW::Mechanize::Link->new( {
        url  => $url,
        text => $text,
        name => $name,
        tag  => $tag,
        base => $base,
        attr => $attr_href,
    } );

For compatibility, this older interface is also supported:

 new( $url, $text, $name, $tag, $base, $attr_href )

Creates and returns a new WWW::Mechanize::Link object.

Accessors

$link->url()

URL from the link

$link->text()

Text of the link

$link->name()

NAME attribute from the source tag, if any.

$link->tag()

Tag name (one of: "a", "area", "frame", "iframe" or "meta").

$link->base()

Base URL to which the links are relative.

$link->attrs()

Returns hash ref of all the attributes and attribute values in the tag.

$link->URI()

Returns the URL as a URI::URL object.

$link->url_abs()

Returns a URI::URL object for the absolute form of the string.

SEE ALSO

WWW::Mechanize and WWW::Mechanize::Image

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2004-2010 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

• the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or

• the Artistic License version 2.0.

cpanm WWW::Mechanize

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Mechanize