Note : Both Netscape and
Internet Explorer support the Forms collection (Netscape
call it an array). For properties, methods and events that are supported
by <FORM>
elements, see the
<FORM>
topic.
The Forms collection is an ordered, indexed (in document source order) array,
containing a reference to every <FORM>
element in a document.
Discrete form objects would normally be retrieved by their index in the Forms
collection (for example document.forms(0)
contains a reference
to the first <FORM>
element in the document), but a string
value can be used, as long as that string is a valid identifier
(ID
or NAME
attribute value) for a
<FORM>
in the document.
E.g.
document.forms('frmFeedback')
or
document.frmFeedback
both identify the same <FORM>
in the document. The first
method makes scripts easier to read and understand though. It also allows
the form name to be held in a variable or built dynamically.
length
The length
property returns the number of forms in the collection
(and therefore the document). Note that the length
count starts
at 1, not 0 as the forms collection index does. Therefore, the
length
property may return a value of 5, but to access the 4th
form, you'd need to use document.forms(3).property
item
The item
method retrieves single items, or sub-collections from
the all collection. It accepts the following arguments:
documentforms.item(index, sub-index)
If index
is a number, then the method returns a reference to
the form object at that position in the forms collections index. I.e.
strTag=document.forms.item(2).action
would make strTag
equal to the ACTION
attribute
of the documents 3rd <FORM>
element. As you can see, this
is effectively the long-hand version of using
document.forms(3).property
.
If the index
property is a string value, then the
item
method returns a sub-collection, containing a reference
to every element in the document that has its ID
or
NAME
attribute set to the string contained in the
index
argument. To retrieve certain element objects from this
sub-collection, the sub-index
argument must be used.
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