Can a search engine spider/robot/crawler "click" a button on a webpage?

Can a search engine robot do that?

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<387a194f-28a8-42d6-832d-bf21858f4b97 (AT) q1g2000prf (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
tenxian <hi.steven.tu (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Can a search engine robot do that?

Yes. A spider can recognize a button and look at the action attribute of
the containing frame. But if the button is just wired to a JavaScript
onclick event, very few (if any) spiders will follow it.

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Philip
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