File: 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 January 2020.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The name read-only property of the File interface returns the name of the file represented by a File object. For security reasons, the path is excluded from this property.
Value
A string, containing the name of the file without path, such as "My Resume.rtf".
Examples
HTML
html
<input type="file" id="file-picker" multiple /> <div> <p>List of selected files:</p> <ul id="output"></ul> </div> JavaScript
js
const output = document.getElementById("output"); const filePicker = document.getElementById("file-picker"); filePicker.addEventListener("change", (event) => { const files = event.target.files; output.textContent = ""; for (const file of files) { const li = document.createElement("li"); li.textContent = file.name; output.appendChild(li); } }); Result
Specifications
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| File API # dfn-name |