JavaScript name variable

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I'm using Mozilla Firefox if that changes anything.

So I was developing a website, an accidentally set name variable to my name in some code, and then I fixed that. Shortly after, I fixed that, and name was still my name. I switched tabs on to a random website, and started typing name, and it automatically showed the variable as I press n. It was set to "". What's going on here?

I even went to a 404 page on my server to make sure it wasn't a script I had included on my page, and typed var name = "a" and went to another page, and name returned "a". Does it act like a localStorage variable?

`name` is reserved: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_reserved.asp — Matthew Herbst, Mar 11 '19 at 19:55
@MatthewHerbst: It's not https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/index.html#sec-reserved-words . The page you linked to says it should not be used in a browser environment, which is correct, but that doesn't make it reserved (on a language level). — Felix Kling, Mar 11 '19 at 19:57
Have you tried from a different browser? If so, what happened? — , Mar 11 '19 at 20:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '19 at 20:04

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name is a global that exists as a property on every window.

answered Mar 11 '19 at 20:04

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