get form name

Using : document.forms[0]

<a href="#" onclick="alert(document.forms[0].name); return false;">Click</a>

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To get the first one (or the only one) : document.getElementsByTagName("form")[0]

<a href="#" onclick="alert(document.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].name); return false;">Click</a>

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closest ??? !!!
never heard of it - if it works - awesome!!!
not doubting you - I just can't test it till tomorrow morning ...

thanks - will be in touch ...

Proculopsis - take a look at this please:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26851013/write-select-multiple-options.html

you the man ...

one final question on this post if youd be so kind ...
You showed me how to get form name or id - which is what I need some of the time.
Other times I need the form object - ya know like if you had a form named myForm then what I mean is document.myForm will give you the parent form object.

how can i get that?
thanks ...

Just remove the .attr()

var formName = $(this).closest("form").attr("name");
var formObject = $(this).closest("form");

hey thanks buddy!
I should have opened a new question - sorry ...
We'll get ya next time!

No need. Thanks anyway :)