File: name property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The name read-only property of the File interface returns the name of the file represented by a File object. For security
reasons, the path is excluded from this property.
Value
A string, containing the name of the file without path, such as "My Resume.rtf".
Examples
HTML
html
<input type="file" id="file-picker" multiple />
<div>
<p>List of selected files:</p>
<ul id="output"></ul>
</div>
JavaScript
js
const output = document.getElementById("output");
const filePicker = document.getElementById("file-picker");
filePicker.addEventListener("change", (event) => {
const files = event.target.files;
output.textContent = "";
for (const file of files) {
const li = document.createElement("li");
li.textContent = file.name;
output.appendChild(li);
}
});
Result
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