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I have an array of all the forms in my page. I want to iterate through all the forms, and find the buttons in them. How can I achieve this in Javascript alone, without any libraries?

Here's my JS code :

var forms = document.querySelectorAll('form');

for(var i = 0; i < forms.length; i++;){
    var form = forms[i];
    form.addEventListener('submit', validateForm);
}

function validateForm(e){
    e.preventDefault();    
    var button = ?; // I want to get the button that is a child of this form
}

I know that I can use this to get all the buttons that are children of a form :

var buttons = document.querySelectorAll('form button');

But how can I get just one button that is a children of this form?

I've seen this question asked multiple times, but it was always to find the children of a parent that was known, with a specific id or something like that. I have no idea how many forms there will be in the page, and I have no control on wether or not they have unique id or anything else that could be used to differentiate them when using querySelectorAll().

Is it possible to achieve what I want?

I'm looking for the pure JS alternative to this in jQuery :

var $form = $('form');
var $childButton = $form.find('button');

I have an array of all the forms in my page. I want to iterate through all the forms, and find the buttons in them. How can I achieve this in Javascript alone, without any libraries?

Here's my JS code :

var forms = document.querySelectorAll('form');

for(var i = 0; i < forms.length; i++;){
    var form = forms[i];
    form.addEventListener('submit', validateForm);
}

function validateForm(e){
    e.preventDefault();    
    var button = ?; // I want to get the button that is a child of this form
}

I know that I can use this to get all the buttons that are children of a form :

var buttons = document.querySelectorAll('form button');

But how can I get just one button that is a children of this form?

I've seen this question asked multiple times, but it was always to find the children of a parent that was known, with a specific id or something like that. I have no idea how many forms there will be in the page, and I have no control on wether or not they have unique id or anything else that could be used to differentiate them when using querySelectorAll().

Is it possible to achieve what I want?

I'm looking for the pure JS alternative to this in jQuery :

var $form = $('form');
var $childButton = $form.find('button');

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Element has equivalent versions of querySelector/All and so can be called from elements as well as document. So if you are looking for a button inside a form element you can just call querySelector from the form element

var form = document.querySelector("#SomeForm");
//Will find the first button in the form
var someBtn = form.querySelector("button");
//Will find all buttons in the form.
var someBtns = form.querySelectorAll("button");

Demo

let forms = document.querySelectorAll("form");
[].forEach.call(forms,form=>{
   form.querySelector("button").innerText += " - Modified";
});

<form>
  <button>A button</button><br>
  <input><input>
</form>
<form><br><br>
  <button>B button</button><br>
  <input><input><br>
  <button>C button</button>
</form><br><br>
<form>
  <button>D button</button><br>
  <input><input>
</form>

If you want to select the first button descendant, you can use querySelector.

But if you want to make sure it's a child, then you can use [].find:

[].find.call(form.children, function(child) {
  return child.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'button';
});

Alternatively, some browsers support the :scope psudo-class:

form.querySelector(":scope > button");

Hopefully it won't be removed together with scoped stylesheets and @scope at-rule.

Your question isn't really clear. There is a document.forms collection that is all the forms in a document in DOM order, so:

var firstForm = document.forms[0];

will get the first form. If your buttons have names, you can get the button with name "Fred" in the first form using:

var fred = document.forms[0].Fred;

Or the first button in the first form with:

var firstButton = document.forms[0].querySelector('button');

Or all the buttons in the first form with:

var firstButton = document.forms[0].querySelectorAll('button');

and so on. Note that form controls can be associated with a form using the form attribute, but not be inside the form. E.g.

<form id="foo">
  <!--  stuff in the form -->
</form>
<button type="submit" for="foo">Submit the form</button>

In this case the querySelector syntax fails but form property access doesn't, so you might need to loop over the form's elements collection:

for var i=0, firstButton; i<firstForm.elements.length; i++) {
  if (firstForm.elements[i].tagName.toLowerCase() == 'button') {
    // This is the first button associated with the form, 
    // even if not actually in the form
  }
}

So if you want to cover every case, your code needs to be very generic. But if you narrow down the likely scenarios, the code is very much simpler.

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