The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Form

Every form on a web page has a form object. The window.document.forms[] array stores all of a web page's form objects.

Properties

Each type of Form element—button, checkbox, FileUpload, hidden, password, radio, reset, select, submit, text, and textarea—has its own object listing in this appendix. See each individual object for more information.

action

FF, IE 4; read-only in IE 3

Triggers a specified CGI script when a user submits the form

Example:

if (user == "expert")
{
    window.document.the_form.action = "expert_script.cgi";
} else {
    window.document.the_form.action = "basic_script.cgi";
}

If the user is considered an expert, the form is set to run expert_script.cgi when the user submits the form.

elements[]

FF, IE 3

Array of the elements of this form ...