HTMLTextAreaElement: 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 HTMLTextAreaElement interface indicates the name of the <textarea> element. It reflects the element's name attribute.

Value

A string representing the element's name.

Example

js
const textareaElement = document.querySelector("#message");
console.log(`Element's name: ${textareaElement.name}`);
textareaElement.name = "response"; // sets or updates the element's name

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-fe-name

Browser compatibility

See also