HTMLFormElement: formdata event

The formdata event fires after the entry list representing the form's data is constructed. This happens when the form is submitted, but can also be triggered by the invocation of a FormData() constructor.

General info

Examples

// grab reference to form

const formElem = document.querySelector('form');

// submit handler

formElem.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
  // on form submission, prevent default
  e.preventDefault();

  // construct a FormData object, which fires the formdata event
  new FormData(formElem);
});

// formdata handler to retrieve data

formElem.addEventListener('formdata', (e) => {
  console.log('formdata fired');

  // Get the form data from the event object
  let data = e.formData;
  for (var value of data.values()) {
    console.log(value);
  }

  // submit the data via XHR
  var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
  request.open("POST", "/formHandler");
  request.send(data);
});

The onformdata version would look like this:

formElem.onformdata = (e) => {
  console.log('formdata fired');

  // Get the form data from the event object
  let data = e.formData;
  for (var value of data.values()) {
    console.log(value);
  }

  // submit the data via XHR
  var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
  request.open("POST", "/formHandler");
  request.send(data);
};

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• HTML <form> element
• FormDataEvent