File: 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 January 2020.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The name read-only property of the File interface returns the name of the file represented by a File object. For security reasons, the path is excluded from this property.

Value

A string, containing the name of the file without path, such as "My Resume.rtf".

Examples

HTML

html
<input type="file" id="file-picker" multiple />
<div>
  <p>List of selected files:</p>
  <ul id="output"></ul>
</div>

JavaScript

js
const output = document.getElementById("output");
const filePicker = document.getElementById("file-picker");

filePicker.addEventListener("change", (event) => {
  const files = event.target.files;
  output.textContent = "";

  for (const file of files) {
    const li = document.createElement("li");
    li.textContent = file.name;
    output.appendChild(li);
  }
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
File API
# dfn-name

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobileserver
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
name

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