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

IE DOM does not allow me to change name attribute on runtime. However, using jQuery to update the name attribute works on IE. I tested on IE9. For examples,

$("#ID0E2B").attr("name", newName);