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FileSystemEntry: name property

The read-only name property of the FileSystemEntry interface returns a string specifying the entry's name; this is the entry within its parent directory (the last component of the path as indicated by the fullPath property).

Value

A string indicating the entry's name.

Examples

This example shows a function called isFileWithExtension() which returns true if the specified FileSystemEntry is both a file and the file's name ends with a given extension.

js

function isFileWithExtension(entry, extension) {
  return entry.isFile && entry.name.endsWith(`.${extension}`);
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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name 8 79 50 No No 11.1 ≤37 18 50 14 11.3 1.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemEntry/name