forms

Summary

This property returns an object array representing an HTMLCollection of all the forms in the document.

Property of dom/Documentdom/Document

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var HTMLCollection = document.forms;

Return Value

Returns an object of type DOM NodeDOM Node

Returns a collection of all the forms of a document

Examples

//retrieve forms collection and report how many forms are in the document
function numForms() {
  var allForms = document.forms;
  alert(allForms.length);
}

Related specifications

DOM Level 2 HTML

Recommendation

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]