Click a input type submit - Mechanize Ruby

Question

I am trying to click a button which is actually a submit without a form which looks some thing like this and store the result in an object

<div class="searchBar-input">
    <input id="front-page-search" value="Enter Keyword(s)" type="text">
</div>


<div class="searchBar-submit">
    <input id="searchBtn" value="Search" type="submit">
</div>

I have tried puts page.forms and I am getting nothing as there is no form on the page. Its just a text box whose value I have to submit.

I have googled but I found everything about form submit and links. How can I click this? Any suggestions.Thanks in advance

Clicking that button in your browser might do something but that won't mean anything to mechanize. No form means nothing to submit. — pguardiario, Oct 23 '13 at 23:25
@pguardiario that is not a form but on clicking submit it should post a value that is present in the input box. And I am sure there is no form. — Arihant Godha, Oct 24 '13 at 04:19
Right. I'm saying that without a form that's not going to happen. — pguardiario, Oct 24 '13 at 04:26
Sure, you can post the data to an url the normal way which is with `Mechanize#post` — pguardiario, Oct 24 '13 at 07:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '13 at 15:09

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try this :

<div class="searchBar-submit">
   <input id="searchBtn" value="Search" type="submit"  onclick="document.forms[0].submit();" ></div>

answered Oct 23 '13 at 15:09

MohammadSia

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I am using mechanize and I am trying to crawl other site so onclick is not under my control – Arihant Godha Oct 23 '13 at 15:14

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