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When I typed this apparently innocent snippet of code:
values.name gedit highlighted name as a keyword. However, name is not listed by the pages linked to by an answer to a question about reserved keywords. I also did a couple trivial tests in SpiderMonkey, but name seemed to act like an ordinary identifier.
A Google search didn't tell me much either. However, I did find a page listing name in "Other JavaScript Keywords". My guess is that name is a function or a member of some DOM element and does not intrude on the namespace.
Is name really a keyword in JavaScript? If so, what does it do?
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'name' is the property of the window object of the browser. It is a built-in property in JavaScript.
The three keywords var , let , and const work around these scopes.
The name JavaScript came from Netscape's support of Java applets within its browser. Many say it was also a marketing tactic to divert some attention from Java, which was the most buzzed-about language at the time. To run Java programs, the code must be first compiled into an executable form.
Keywords are tokens that have special meaning in JavaScript: break , case , catch , continue , debugger , default , delete , do , else , finally , for , function , if , in , instanceof , new , return , switch , this , throw , try , typeof , var , void , while , and with .
Its not a javascript reserved word, its an html attribute. Any DOM element can have a name. Looks like your syntax editor will still highlight it.
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(I know this was asked 2 years ago but, ...) This happened to me also, for example this below would not work.
name = document.getElementById('nombre'); //something else name.className = 'thinking'; Instead I changed it to
username = document.getElementById('nombre'); //something else username.className = 'thinking'; and it did work! Yeah, alright that's all, but it's something I find maybe quite interesting, also because of the 'name' attribute of the 'a' tag. Something to watch out for.
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