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 HTMLIFrameElement interface is a string value that reflects the name attribute of the <iframe> element, indicating the specific name of the <iframe> element.
A string.
<iframe id="el" name="example"></iframe>
const el = document.getElementById("el");
console.log(el.name); // Output: "example"
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-iframe-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/HTMLIFrameElement/name