jQuery selector to get form by name

Question

I have the following HTML    lt form name  frmSave  gt     lt  form gt    Just to know  I am not able to modify the HTML in order to add an id or something else   This is what I tried to get the form element by it s name   var frm      form name  frmSave       console log frm      but I believe the above code will try to get a children element with the frmSave name inside the form which is not what I need    How can I achieve this  is it possible to get the form by just the name and using a selector     Update   I was doing the wrong way in my original code  I was using a space aka  combinator  in the selector  and not in the code snippet from here so jQuery was trying to get any children element with the name needed and I was asking myself what was wrong since nothing was returned   The accepted answer gives a better explanation about this so a little space could change everything - I will sleep properly next time  -

User · Answer

For detecting if the form is present  I m using   if    form name  frmSave     length  gt  0          do something

User · Answer

this will give all the forms on the page          form          If you know the name of form then          form name  myFormName            If you don t know know the name but the position  starts with 0          form eq 1        2nd form will be fetched

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You have no combinator  space   gt         so no children will get involved  ever   However  you could avoid the need for jQuery by using an ID and getElementById  or you could use the old getElementsByName  frmSave   0  or the even older document forms  frmSave    jQuery is unnecessary here

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form name  frmSave     is correct  You mentioned you thought this would get all children with the name frmsave inside the form  this would only happen if there was a space or other combinator between the form and the selector  eg     form  name  frmSave          form name  frmSave     literally means find all forms with the name frmSave  because there is no combinator involved

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