Can I use JavaScript to set the 'name' attribute?

Question

According to SitePoint (and my own experiments), the IE implementation of \"setAttribute()\" is buggy and unreliable.

Also according to SitePoint, the name

Answer 1

This worked for me

alert(document.getElementById('testInput').name);
document.getElementById('testInput').name = 'someName';
alert(document.getElementById('testInput').name);

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