HTMLInputElement: name property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The name property of the HTMLInputElement interface indicates the name of the <input> element. It reflects the element's name attribute.

Value

A string representing the element's name.

Example

Given the following HTML:

html
<p>
  <label for="planet">Which planet were you born on?</label>
  <input id="planet" type="text" name="origin" />
</p>

You can use the name property to retrieve or set the <input>'s name:

js
const inputElement = document.querySelector("#planet");
console.log(`Element's name: ${inputElement.name}`); // "Element's name: origin"
inputElement.name = "planet"; // updates the element's name

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-fe-name

Browser compatibility

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See also