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JS & DOM Reference

Overview

JavaScript Objects

JS Array
JS Boolean
JS Date
JS Math
JS Number
JS String
JS RegExp
JS Global

Browser Objects

Window
Navigator
Screen
History
Location

Core DOM Objects

DOM Node
DOM NodeList
DOM NamedNodeMap
DOM Document
DOM Element
DOM Attr

HTML DOM Objects

DOM Document
DOM Events
DOM Elements

DOM Anchor
DOM Area
DOM Base
DOM Body
DOM Button
DOM Form
DOM Frame/IFrame
DOM Frameset
DOM Image
DOM Input Button
DOM Input Checkbox
DOM Input File
DOM Input Hidden
DOM Input Password
DOM Input Radio
DOM Input Reset
DOM Input Submit
DOM Input Text
DOM Link
DOM Meta
DOM Object
DOM Option
DOM Select
DOM Style
DOM Table
DOM td / th
DOM tr
DOM Textarea

Document forms Collection

Document Object

Definition and Usage

The forms collection returns an array of all the forms in the current document.

Syntax

document.forms[].property

Browser Support

The forms collection is supported in all major browsers.

Examples

Example 1

Return the number of forms in the document:

<html>
<body>

<form name="Form1"></form>
<form name="Form2"></form>
<form></form>

<p>Number of forms:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(document.forms.length);
</script></p>

</body>
</html>

The output of the code above will be:

Number of forms: 3

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Example 2

Return the name of the first form in the document:

<html>
<body>

<form name="Form1"></form>
<form name="Form2"></form>
<form></form>

<p>Name of first form:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(document.forms[0].name);
</script></p>

</body>
</html>