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# Class FormElement

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                            FormElement

Represents a <form> element.

Instance Methods | [hide private]
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form_values(self) Return a list of tuples of the field values for the form. This is suitable to be passed to `urllib.urlencode()`. | source code
Inherited from `HtmlElement`: `cssselect`, `set` Inherited from `etree.ElementBase`: `__init__`, `__new__` Inherited from `etree._Element`: `__contains__`, `__copy__`, `__deepcopy__`, `__delitem__`, `__getitem__`, `__iter__`, `__len__`, `__nonzero__`, `__repr__`, `__reversed__`, `__setitem__`, `addnext`, `addprevious`, `append`, `clear`, `extend`, `find`, `findall`, `findtext`, `get`, `getchildren`, `getiterator`, `getnext`, `getparent`, `getprevious`, `getroottree`, `index`, `insert`, `items`, `iter`, `iterancestors`, `iterchildren`, `iterdescendants`, `iterfind`, `itersiblings`, `itertext`, `keys`, `makeelement`, `remove`, `replace`, `values`, `xpath` Inherited from `etree._Element` (private): `_init` Inherited from `HtmlMixin`: `drop_tag`, `drop_tree`, `find_class`, `find_rel_links`, `get_element_by_id`, `iterlinks`, `make_links_absolute`, `resolve_base_href`, `rewrite_links`, `text_content` Inherited from `object`: `__delattr__`, `__format__`, `__getattribute__`, `__hash__`, `__reduce__`, `__reduce_ex__`, `__setattr__`, `__sizeof__`, `__str__`, `__subclasshook__`

Properties | [hide private]
| action Get/set the form's `action` attribute.
| fields Dictionary-like object that represents all the fields in this form. You can set values in this dictionary to effect the form.
| inputs Returns an accessor for all the input elements in the form.
| method Get/set the form's method. Always returns a capitalized string, and defaults to `'GET'`
Inherited from `etree._Element`: `attrib`, `base`, `nsmap`, `prefix`, `sourceline`, `tag`, `tail`, `text` Inherited from `HtmlMixin`: `base_url`, `body`, `classes`, `forms`, `head`, `label` Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Property Details | [hide private]

### action Get/set the form's `action` attribute. Get Method: unreachable.action(self) - Get/set the form's `action` attribute. Set Method: unreachable.action(self, value) Delete Method: unreachable.action(self)

### fields Dictionary-like object that represents all the fields in this form. You can set values in this dictionary to effect the form. Get Method: unreachable.fields(self) - Dictionary-like object that represents all the fields in this form. You can set values in this dictionary to effect the form. Set Method: unreachable.fields(self, value)

### inputs Returns an accessor for all the input elements in the form. See InputGetter for more information about the object. Get Method: unreachable.inputs(self) - Returns an accessor for all the input elements in the form.

### method Get/set the form's method. Always returns a capitalized string, and defaults to `'GET'` Get Method: unreachable.method(self) - Get/set the form's method. Always returns a capitalized string, and defaults to `'GET'` Set Method: unreachable.method(self, value)