Can I use JavaScript to set the 'name' attribute?

Question

According to SitePoint (and my own experiments), the IE implementation of \"setAttribute()\" is buggy and unreliable.

Also according to SitePoint, the name

Answer 1

Have you tried simply assigning a new name to the elements name property? I'm not sure how cross-browser that is but it shold work with anything supporting DOM level 1.

I'm not sure why you would use setAttribute to perform this?