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 HTMLSelectElement interface indicates the name of the <select> element. It reflects the element's name attribute.
A string representing the element's name.
const selectElement = document.querySelector("#planets");
console.log(`Element's name: ${selectElement.name}`);
selectElement.name = "galaxies"; // sets or updates the element's name
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-fe-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/HTMLSelectElement/name