This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLFormElement.name property represents the name of the current <form> element as a string.
If your <Form> element contains an element named name then that element overrides the form.name property, so that you can't access it.
A string.
const form1name = document.getElementById("form1").name;
if (form1name !== document.form.form1) {
// Browser doesn't support this form of reference
}
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-form-name> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
name |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement/name