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.IX Title "WWW::Mechanize::Link 3"
.TH WWW::Mechanize::Link 3 "2011-08-05" "perl v5.16.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
WWW::Mechanize::Link \- Link object for WWW::Mechanize
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
Link object to encapsulate all the stuff that Mech needs but nobody
wants to deal with as an array.
.SH "Constructor"
.IX Header "Constructor"
.SS "\fInew()\fP"
.IX Subsection "new()"
.Vb 8
\&    my $link = WWW::Mechanize::Link\->new( {
\&        url  => $url,
\&        text => $text,
\&        name => $name,
\&        tag  => $tag,
\&        base => $base,
\&        attr => $attr_href,
\&    } );
.Ve
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For compatibility, this older interface is also supported:
.PP
.Vb 1
\& new( $url, $text, $name, $tag, $base, $attr_href )
.Ve
.PP
Creates and returns a new \f(CW\*(C`WWW::Mechanize::Link\*(C'\fR object.
.SH "Accessors"
.IX Header "Accessors"
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fIurl()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fIurl()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->url()"
\&\s-1URL\s0 from the link
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fItext()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fItext()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->text()"
Text of the link
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fIname()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fIname()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->name()"
\&\s-1NAME\s0 attribute from the source tag, if any.
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fItag()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fItag()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->tag()"
Tag name (one of: \*(L"a\*(R", \*(L"area\*(R", \*(L"frame\*(R", \*(L"iframe\*(R" or \*(L"meta\*(R").
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fIbase()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fIbase()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->base()"
Base \s-1URL\s0 to which the links are relative.
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fIattrs()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fIattrs()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->attrs()"
Returns hash ref of all the attributes and attribute values in the tag.
.ie n .SS "$link\->\s-1\fIURI\s0()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\s-1\fIURI\s0()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->URI()"
Returns the \s-1URL\s0 as a \s-1URI::URL\s0 object.
.ie n .SS "$link\->\fIurl_abs()\fP"
.el .SS "\f(CW$link\fP\->\fIurl_abs()\fP"
.IX Subsection "$link->url_abs()"
Returns a \s-1URI::URL\s0 object for the absolute form of the string.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
WWW::Mechanize and WWW::Mechanize::Image
.SH "COPYRIGHT & LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT & LICENSE"
Copyright 2004\-2010 Andy Lester.
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of either:
.IP "\(bu" 4
the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later
version, or
.IP "\(bu" 4
the Artistic License version 2.0.
