How do you check if a JavaScript Object is a DOM Object?

Question

I\'m trying to get:

document.createElement(\'div\')  //=> true
{tagName: \'foobar something\'}  //=> false

In my own scripts, I used

Answer 1

The using the root detection found here, we can determine whether e.g. alert is a member of the object's root, which is then likely to be a window:

function isInAnyDOM(o) { 
  return (o !== null) && !!(o.ownerDocument && (o.ownerDocument.defaultView || o.ownerDocument.parentWindow).alert); // true|false
}

To determine whether the object is the current window is even simpler:

function isInCurrentDOM(o) { 
  return (o !== null) && !!o.ownerDocument && (window === (o.ownerDocument.defaultView || o.ownerDocument.parentWindow)); // true|false
}

This seems to be less expensive than the try/catch solution in the opening thread.

Don P