How to use getElementById to get the elements in a form
There are many ways of accessing form elements, of which the easiest is by using the cross-browser W3C DOM document.getElementById() method. Before we learn more about this method, it would be useful to know something about the Document Object Model (DOM), the concept of HTML nodes or elements, and the concept of containers. Each time you load an HTML page, the web browser generates an internal representation of the page in the form of an inverted tree structure.