HTMLFormControlsCollection.namedItem

The HTMLFormControlsCollection.namedItem() method returns the RadioNodeList or the Element in the collection whose name or id match the specified name, or null if no node matches.

Note that this version of namedItem() hides the one inherited from HTMLCollection. Like that one, in JavaScript, using the array bracket syntax with a String, like collection["value"] is equivalent to collection.namedItem("value").

Syntax

var item = collection.namedItem(str);
var item = collection[str];

Parameters

• str is a DOMString

Return value

• item is a RadioNodeList or an Element.

Examples

<form>
  <input id="myFormControl" type="textarea"/>
</form>

elem1 = document.forms[0]["myFormControl"]; // Returns the HTMLInputElement representing #myFormControl

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of 'HTMLFormControlsCollection' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change since the last snapshot, HTML5.
HTML5 The definition of 'HTMLFormControlsCollection' in that specification.	Recommendation	In this snapshot of WHATWG HTML Living Standard, the HTMLFormControlsCollections is defined for the first time.

Browser compatibility

[1] Until Firefox 32 included, the eventual RadioNodeList returned by namedItem was a NodeList.

See also

• HTMLCollection.namedItem that it replaces.