<b>Retrieving Forms on Web Pages with Javascript
<p>Open the console to see the output of this code</p>
</b>
<form action="#" id="theForm" name="firstForm">
First: <input type="text" name="firstname" id="fname" size="25" /><br/>
Last: <input type="text" name="lastname" size="25" /><br/>
Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="25" /><br/>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
JavaScript
// All these point to HMTLFormElement 'firstForm'
// The document.forms property is an HTMLCollection
// which can be dereferenced by [integer] or property name
var f = document.forms[0] ;
console.log( f ); // theForm
console.log( document.forms["firstForm"] ); // theForm
console.log( document.forms.firstForm ); // theForm
// And of course, document.getElementById() always works
console.log( document.getElementById("theForm") ); // theForm
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