Class: WWW::Mechanize::Page::Link

This class encapsulates links. It contains the text and the URI for ‘a’ tags parsed out of an HTML page. If the link contains an image, the alt text will be used for that image.

For example, the text for the following links with both be ‘Hello World’:

<a href="Hello">rubyforge.org">Hello World</a> <a href="rubyforge.org"> src="test.jpg" alt="Hello World"></a>

Methods

click new uri

External Aliases

text	->	to_s
page	->	referer
pretty_inspect	->	inspect

Attributes

 attributes
 href
 node
 page
 text

Public Class methods

new(node, mech, page)

[Source]

    # File lib/www/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 21
21:         def initialize(node, mech, page)
22:           @node = node
23:           @href = node['href'] 
24:           @text = node.inner_text
25:           @page = page
26:           @mech = mech
27:           @attributes = node
28: 
29:           # If there is no text, try to find an image and use it's alt text
30:           if (@text.nil? || @text.length == 0) && (node/'img').length > 0
31:             @text = ''
32:             (node/'img').each do |e|
33:               @text << ( e['alt'] || '')
34:             end
35:           end
36: 
37:         end

Public Instance methods

click()

Click on this link

[Source]

    # File lib/www/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 44
44:         def click
45:           @mech.click self
46:         end

uri()

[Source]

    # File lib/www/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 39
39:         def uri
40:           URI.parse(@href)
41:         end