What is the `name` keyword in JavaScript?

Question

When I typed this apparently innocent snippet of code:

values.name

gedit highlighted name as a keyword. However,

Answer 1

This happened to me also, for example, the following didn't work for me while I was testing the call, bind functions.

var name={
firstname: 'Abhishek',
lastname: 'Agarwal',

fullname: function{
    var fname = this.firstname + ' ' + this.lastname;
    return fname;
}

function printname(){
    console.log(this.fullname());
}
var final=printname.bind(name);
final();

This didn't actually perform the task and instead when I replaced "name" occurences by "myname" or literally anything else, it did work!

Answer 2

It's not a reserved word it's a variable (it is window.name) I'm not sure what it's defined by though.

Answer 3

(I know this was asked 2 years ago but, ...) This happened to me also, for example this below would not work.

name = document.getElementById('nombre');
//something else
name.className = 'thinking';

Instead I changed it to

username = document.getElementById('nombre');
//something else
username.className = 'thinking';

and it did work! Yeah, alright that's all, but it's something I find maybe quite interesting, also because of the 'name' attribute of the 'a' tag. Something to watch out for.

Answer 4

Its not a javascript reserved word, its an html attribute. Any DOM element can have a name. Looks like your syntax editor will still highlight it.