<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
A color picker: <input type="color" id="myColor" name="favcolor">
<p>Click the buttons to display and/or change the value of the name attribute of the color picker.</p>
<button onclick="display()">Display name</button>
<button onclick="change()">Change name</button>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> input elements with type="color" do not show any colorpicker in Internet Explorer and Safari.</p>
<script>
function display() {
var x = document.getElementById("myColor").name;
alert("The name of the color picker is: " + x);
}
function change() {
var x = document.getElementById("myColor").name = "newColorName";
alert ("The name was changed to: " + x);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>