Class: 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/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 20
20:       def initialize(node, mech, page)
21:         @node = node
22:         @href = node['href']
23:         @text = node.inner_text
24:         @page = page
25:         @mech = mech
26:         @attributes = node
27: 
28:         # If there is no text, try to find an image and use it's alt text
29:         if (@text.nil? || @text.length == 0) && node.search('img').length > 0
30:           @text = ''
31:           node.search('img').each do |e|
32:             @text << ( e['alt'] || '')
33:           end
34:         end
35: 
36:       end

Public Instance methods

click()

Click on this link

[Source]

    # File lib/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 43
43:       def click
44:         @mech.click self
45:       end

uri()

[Source]

    # File lib/mechanize/page/link.rb, line 38
38:       def uri
39:         @href && URI.parse(URI.encode(@href))
40:       end