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

This could be helpful: isDOM

//-----------------------------------
// Determines if the @obj parameter is a DOM element
function isDOM (obj) {
    // DOM, Level2
    if ("HTMLElement" in window) {
        return (obj && obj instanceof HTMLElement);
    }
    // Older browsers
    return !!(obj && typeof obj === "object" && obj.nodeType === 1 && obj.nodeName);
}

In the code above, we use the double negation operator to get the boolean value of the object passed as argument, this way we ensure that each expression evaluated in the conditional statement be boolean, taking advantage of the Short-Circuit Evaluation, thus the function returns true or false