How can I determine the element type of a matched element in jQuery?

Question

I\'m matching ASP.Net generated elements by ID name, but I have some elements which may render as text boxes or labels depending on the page context. I need to figure out wh

Answer 1

tagName what a nice tip. I would like to suggest also to use tagName.toLowerCase() since the value returned depends on the document type (HTML or XML/XHTML).

See: http://reference.sitepoint.com/javascript/Element/tagName