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Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

Deprecated since Gecko 7.0 (Firefox 7.0 / Thunderbird 7.0 / SeaMonkey 2.4)
This feature has been removed from the Web standards. Though some browsers may still support it, it is in the process of being dropped. Do not use it in old or new projects. Pages or Web apps using it may break at any time.

Summary

Returns the name of the file. For security reasons the path is excluded from this property.

This property is deprecated. Use File.name instead.

Syntax

var name = instanceOfFile.fileName

Value

A string

Specification

Not part of any specification.

See also

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