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What is the chemical name thing for salt? Anyone? Bueller?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt

so its sodium chloride...right? why do you always give me a hard to understand website? thanks :(

Yes. It's sodium chloride.

I thought the site made it very clear in the first line of the text and the caption under the photograph at the top of the page.

The chemical name for salt is sodium chloride. To determine the chemical name of a compound like salt, you can break it down into its constituent elements. Salt is composed of the elements sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl). The chemical name of a compound generally describes the elements that make it up. In this case, "sodium chloride" indicates that the compound is made up of sodium and chlorine.