HTMLButtonElement: 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 ⁨July 2015⁩.

The name property of the HTMLButtonElement interface indicates the name of the <button> element or the empty string if the element has no name. It reflects the element's name attribute.

Value

A string representing the element's name.

Example

js
const buttonElement = document.querySelector("#myButton");
console.log(`Element's name: ${buttonElement.name}`);
buttonElement.name = "newName";

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-fe-name

Browser compatibility

See also