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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics The Button Element

Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
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Posted by Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
6,856 Points

is name attribute very important?

I just have a simple question. Is 'name' attribute very important?

4 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Because later, when your form sends data to the server, it'll be referenced on the server by it's name attribute from the form.

Daniel Botta
Daniel Botta
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Daniel Botta
Daniel Botta
17,956 Points

Yes it's very important when working with server side code. For example, when someone types text into an input and you want to do something with that data, you would access that data from the name value in order to do something with it.

Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
6,856 Points
Pratik Rai
Pratik Rai
6,856 Points

thank you. since I have no idea about server side, so didn't know about that. I always used to write without name attribute. now onwards i will put name as well.