What's the point of HTML forms `name` attribute?

Question

What\'s the point of the name attribute on an HTML form? As far as I can tell, you can\'t read the form name on submission or do anything else with it. Does it

Answer 1

Once you assign a name to an element, you can refer to that element via document.name_of_element throughout your code. Doesn't work too tell when you've got multiple fields of the same name, but it does allow shortcuts like:

document.myform.submit();

instead of

document.getElementsByName('myform')[0].submit();