### Method

# Gtk Widget set_name

#### Declaration [src]

    void
    gtk_widget_set_name (
      GtkWidget* widget,
      const char* name
    )

#### Description [src]

Sets a widgets name.

Setting a name allows you to refer to the widget from a CSS file. You can apply a style to widgets with a particular name in the CSS file. See the documentation for the CSS syntax (on the same page as the docs for `GtkStyleContext`.

Note that the CSS syntax has certain special characters to delimit and represent elements in a selector (period, #, >, *…), so using these will make your widget impossible to match by name. Any combination of alphanumeric symbols, dashes and underscores will suffice.

Sets property | `Gtk.Widget:name`

#### Parameters

`name`

  Type: `const char*`

  Name for the widget.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.