On 7/1/06, Augustin (a.k.a. Beginner) <drupal.beginner@wechange.org> wrote:
hook_form_alter() allows us to change forms according to their form_id:
http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/hook_form_alter

Am I missing something easy, or the only way to figure out what is the form_id
of a specific form is to pour over the code and figure out which module
initialized the said form?

Or look into the HTML output. Each HTML form-element has an ID attribute. 

Devel.module doesn't seem to help with that.

It could I suppose. Eg by implementing a hook_form_alter() that stores all the ids Drupal requested to alter and then display that list at the bottom of the page. Or maybe use hook_form_alter() to add a visible form-item (which mentions the form_id) somewhere in the form.
But you're right, at the moment, devel.module has no such feature.

Use the source Luke :-)

Robrecht