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ElementInternals: form property

Baseline 2023
Newly available

Since ⁨March 2023⁩, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

The form read-only property of the ElementInternals interface returns the HTMLFormElement associated with this element.

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.

<form id="myForm">
  <custom-checkbox id="custom-checkbox"></custom-checkbox>
  <custom-label for="custom-checkbox">Join newsletter</custom-label>
</form>
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

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
form 77 79 98 64 16.4 77 98 55 16.4 12.0 77 16.4

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ElementInternals/form