Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

FORM — NN 2 IE 3 DOM 1

Synopsis

The FORM object reflects the FORM element. The FORM object can be addressed in a reference either by the value assigned to its tag NAME attribute or by the index of the forms array contained by every document. To assemble a reference to a form control object, the FORM object must be part of the reference. This covers the eventuality that more than one form may be placed in a document.

HTML Equivalent

<FORM>

Object Model Reference

NN

[window.]document. formName

[window.]document.forms[i]

[window.]document.form[" formName "]

IE

[window.]document. formName

[window.]document.forms[i]

[window.]document.form[" formName "]

[window.]document.all. elementID

Properties

action	innerText	name	offsetWidth	sourceIndex
className	isTextEdit	offsetHeight	outerHTML	style
document	lang	offsetLeft	outerText	tagName
encoding	language	offsetParent	parentElement	target
id	length	offsetTop	parentTextEdit	title
innerHTML	method

Methods

click( )	insertAdjacentHTML( )	scrollIntoView( )
contains( )	insertAdjacentText( )	setAttribute( )
getAttribute( )	removeAttribute( )	submit( )
handleEvent( )	reset( )

Collections/Arrays

all[]

children[]

elements[]

filters[]

Event Handler Properties

Handler	NN	IE	DOM
onclick	n/a	4	n/a
ondblclick	n/a	4	n/a
ondragstart	n/a	4	n/a
onfilterchange	n/a	4	n/a
onhelp	n/a	4	n/a
onkeydown	n/a ...