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 will work for almost any browser. (No distinction between elements and nodes here)

function dom_element_check(element){
    if (typeof element.nodeType !== 'undefined'){
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}