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

You can use the name attribute as an "extra information" attribute - similarly as with a hidden input - but this keeps the extra information tied into the form, which makes it just a little simpler to read/access.