Getting default form name

Arc

Say I have a form that has no name.

For instance, <form actoin="sdf.php" method="post">

What would the name of that form be? Is there a default form name for forms that are not directly given a name?

TheDefender

There is no default form name. You have to specify a name if you want to refer to it by name later.

rgermain

Always a good idea to name the form in any event, just incase down the road you need to refer to it. Just good coding practice.

drew010

in javascript they will always be assigned to an array even if they are named, i.e. document.forms[0] or document.forms[1] etc...

TheDefender

Good call drew, but honestly, who wants to do that, right? Also, (out of curiosity), how are they arranged in the array? I mean, how would you know which one to call (in the event of multiple forms). I am not trying to challenge you here, I am just curious.

drew010

they get assigned in the order in which the appear on the webpage.
therefore the first form on the page gets document.forms[0], the second gets document.forms[1], and so on.
so you cant really write a javascript snipped using the array indices unless you also wrote the html code and you know the person will not insert a form before yours.

just as a reference it goes the same way with images, you can have <img name="test" src="someimage.jpg">
and javascript will give document.images.test, and document.images[0]....
that is useful for doing mouse overs and stuff.

btw. i originally brought up javascript because php doesnt do anything with the form name anyway, it doesnt make it available as a variable or special array so i thought the q may have been more geared toward js.

TheDefender

Oh, that's good stuff drew. Thanks for the info. I mean, I have used JS written by others (of course, leaving the applicable copyrights, and giving due credit), but I haven't ever really gone too in depth at trying to figure out how things work the way they do, so long as they work... Thanks again for the good info drew. I love learning new stuff every day.

Arc

Yah thanks guys I already knew all of that. This is a page that I didnt write and can not edit so I can not add a form name to it. Also I can not use Javascript because this is being done n Visual Basic.

I was just hoping that maybe there was a default form name in case one was not given such as "form1" and any other non named forms would be "form2", etc...