HTMLFormControlsCollection: namedItem() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

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

namedItem(name)
[name]

Parameters

name: A string which will be used to match against the name or id attributes of the controls in this HTMLFormControlsCollection object.

Return value

A RadioNodeList, Element, or null.

Examples

Using namedItem()

HTML

html

<form>
  <label for="notes">Notes:</label>
  <input id="notes" name="my-form-control" type="text" />

  <label for="start">Start date:</label>
  <input id="start" name="my-form-control" type="date" />
</form>

<div id="output"></div>

div {
  margin: 1rem 0;
}

JavaScript

const form = document.querySelector("form");
const items = form.elements.namedItem("my-form-control");

const output = document.querySelector("#output");
const itemIDs = Array.from(items)
  .map((item) => `"${item.id}"`)
  .join(", ");
output.textContent = `My items: ${itemIDs}`;

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-htmlformcontrolscollection-nameditem-dev

Browser compatibility

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