w3c document.forms[0].fieldname equivalent

Question

I\'ve been using

document.forms[0].fieldname.value

to get values in javascript from a form, but I\'d like to use a name to reference the f

Answer 1

(document.forms is still supported. You can keep it.)

The best way to to give the field an id and use document.getElementById.

...
document.getElementById("fooId").value;

If you can't add an id, you can still use document.getElementsByName, but it will return an array instead of a single element because many may share the same name.

document.getElementsByName("fooName")[0].value;