Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

name — NN 2 IE 3 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

The identifier associated with the form. This information is not submitted with the form, but a form’s name is used in references to the form and nested form elements.

Example

var firstFormName = document.forms[0].name

Value

Case-sensitive identifier that follows the rules of identifier naming: it may contain no whitespace, cannot begin with a numeral, and should avoid punctuation except for the underscore character.

Default

None.