Change the name of a form:
document.getElementById("myForm").name = "newName";
Click button to change the value of the name attribute in the form element.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <form id="myForm" name="form1" action="/action_page.php"> First name: <input type="text" name="fname" value="CSS"><br> Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" value="HTML"><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>//w w w . j av a 2 s . co m <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() { document.getElementById("myForm").name = "newName"; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "The name of the form was changed."; } </script> </body> </html>