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class FormElement(HtmlElement): (source)

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Represents a <form> element.

Method action.deleter Undocumented
Method action.setter Undocumented
Method fields.setter Undocumented
Method form_values Return a list of tuples of the field values for the form. This is suitable to be passed to ``urllib.urlencode()``.
Method method.setter Undocumented
Property action Get/set the form's ``action`` attribute.
Property fields Dictionary-like object that represents all the fields in this form. You can set values in this dictionary to effect the form.
Property inputs Returns an accessor for all the input elements in the form.
Property method Get/set the form's method. Always returns a capitalized string, and defaults to ``'GET'``
Method _name Undocumented

Inherited from HtmlMixin (via HtmlElement):

Method classes.setter Undocumented
Method cssselect Run the CSS expression on this element and its children, returning a list of the results.
Method drop_tag Remove the tag, but not its children or text. The children and text are merged into the parent.
Method drop_tree Removes this element from the tree, including its children and text. The tail text is joined to the previous element or parent.
Method find_class Find any elements with the given class name.
Method find_rel_links Find any links like ``<a rel="{rel}">...</a>``; returns a list of elements.
Method get_element_by_id Get the first element in a document with the given id. If none is found, return the default argument if provided or raise KeyError otherwise.
Method iterlinks Yield (element, attribute, link, pos), where attribute may be None (indicating the link is in the text). ``pos`` is the position where the link occurs; often 0, but sometimes something else in the case of links in stylesheets or style tags.
Method label.deleter Undocumented
Method label.setter Undocumented
Method make_links_absolute Make all links in the document absolute, given the ``base_url`` for the document (the full URL where the document came from), or if no ``base_url`` is given, then the ``.base_url`` of the document.
Method resolve_base_href Find any ``<base href>`` tag in the document, and apply its values to all links found in the document. Also remove the tag once it has been applied.
Method rewrite_links Rewrite all the links in the document. For each link ``link_repl_func(link)`` will be called, and the return value will replace the old link.
Method set set(self, key, value=None)
Method text_content Return the text content of the tag (and the text in any children).
Property base_url Returns the base URL, given when the page was parsed.
Property body Return the <body> element. Can be called from a child element to get the document's head.
Property classes A set-like wrapper around the 'class' attribute.
Property forms Return a list of all the forms
Property head Returns the <head> element. Can be called from a child element to get the document's head.
Property label Get or set any <label> element associated with this element.
@action.deleter
def action(self): (source)

Undocumented

@action.setter
def action(self, value): (source)

Undocumented

@fields.setter
def fields(self, value): (source)

Undocumented

def form_values(self): (source)

Return a list of tuples of the field values for the form. This is suitable to be passed to ``urllib.urlencode()``.

@method.setter
def method(self, value): (source)

Undocumented

Get/set the form's ``action`` attribute.

Dictionary-like object that represents all the fields in this form. You can set values in this dictionary to effect the form.

Returns an accessor for all the input elements in the form. See `InputGetter` for more information about the object.

Get/set the form's method. Always returns a capitalized string, and defaults to ``'GET'``

def _name(self): (source)

Undocumented