The form
read-only property of the ElementInternals
interface returns the HTMLFormElement
associated with this element.
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ElementInternals: form property
Value
An HTMLFormElement
.
Examples
The following example shows a custom checkbox component inside a form with an ID of myForm
. Printing form.length
to the console, gives us the value of HTMLFormElement.length
.
html
<form id="myForm">
<custom-checkbox id="custom-checkbox"></custom-checkbox>
<custom-label for="custom-checkbox">Join newsletter</custom-label>
</form>
js
class CustomCheckbox extends HTMLElement {
static formAssociated = true;
#internals;
constructor() {
super();
this.#internals = this.attachInternals();
}
connectedCallback() {
console.log(this.#internals.form.length);
}
}
window.customElements.define("custom-checkbox", CustomCheckbox);
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # dom-elementinternals-form |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
form |
77 | 79 | 98 | No | 64 | 16.4 | 77 | 77 | 98 | 55 | 16.4 | 12.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ElementInternals/form