FileSystemEntry: name property

{{APIRef("File and Directory Entries API")}}

The read-only name property of the {{domxref("FileSystemEntry")}} interface returns a string specifying the entry's name; this is the entry within its parent directory (the last component of the path as indicated by the {{domxref("FileSystemEntry.fullPath", "fullPath")}} property).

Value

A string indicating the entry's name.

Examples

This example shows a function called isFileWithExtension() which returns true if the specified {{domxref("FileSystemEntry")}} is both a file and the file's name ends with a given extension.

function isFileWithExtension(entry, extension) {
  return entry.isFile && entry.name.endsWith(`.${extension}`);
}

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• File and Directory Entries API
• {{domxref("FileSystemEntry")}}
• {{domxref("FileSystemEntry.fullPath")}}