HTMLFieldSetElement: elements property

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 elements read-only property of the HTMLFieldSetElement interface returns an HTMLCollection object containing all form control elements (<button>, <fieldset>, <input>, <object>, <output>, <select>, and <textarea>) that are descendants of this field set.

You can access a particular form control in the returned collection by using either an index or the element's name or id attributes. If multiple form controls share the same name, as is common with a group of radio buttons, using the shared name returns the first element with that value.

Value

An HTMLCollection.

Examples

html
<form id="my-form">
  <fieldset id="my-fieldset">
    <legend>My fieldset</legend>
    <p>
      <label for="username">Username:</label>
      <input type="text" id="username" name="username" />
    </p>
    <p>
      <label for="password">Password:</label>
      <input type="password" id="password" name="password" />
    </p>
    <p>
      <input type="checkbox" id="remember-me" name="remember-me" />
      <label for="remember-me">Remember me</label>
    </p>
  </fieldset>
</form>
js
const fieldset = document.getElementById("my-fieldset");
console.log(fieldset.elements.length); // 3
console.log(fieldset.elements["remember-me"].value); // "on"

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-fieldset-elements-dev

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also