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Jitendra Vyas
Jitendra Vyas

Reputation: 152945

What is the role of name="..." attribute in input?

In this form code what is the role of name="" attribute?

name="s" and name="submit".

Is it necessary to add?

<form action="/index.php" method="get">
   <fieldset>
    <legend>Search</legend>
    <label for="s"><span>Search WaSP</span>
    <input value="" name="s" id="s"></label>
    <input type="submit" value="Go!" name="submit" >
   </fieldset>
  </form>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1178

Answers (4)

ruwan800
ruwan800

Reputation: 1885

name attribute also used for autocompletion. see the detailed list of names here

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#autofill

Upvotes: 0

Dan Heberden
Dan Heberden

Reputation: 11068

This is how they are represented in the DOM as well.

document.forms[0].s.value

Upvotes: 0

kennytm
kennytm

Reputation: 523774

The name ("control name") will be passed into the query string when the form is submitted. This is different from the id attribute which is used to identify an element uniquely by the UA (browser).

With name, the query will be like

/index.php?s=&submit=Go!

Without name, the query will be like

/index.php

Upvotes: 7

Matthew Flaschen
Matthew Flaschen

Reputation: 285077

That is what's actually sent to the server as the name in a normal form submit.

E.g. the name of the StackOverflow answer field is post-text, so the name sent to the server for this field is post-text.

For a GET or application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST, this will be the left-side of a parameter (name=value).

Upvotes: 0

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