Forms as DOM Elements

Learn important points about handing form data via JavaScript.

Accessing form fields

A <form> tag corresponds to a DOM element. This element has an element’s property that pulls together all the form input fields. You can use this property to access a field via its name attribute or by its index (order of appearance in the form).

The below example shows some information on the input fields of our example form.

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