What type of DOM Element?

Question

e.g. if i have this:
whatever

then let say in jQuery, how can I find out that the dom element with id \"mydiv\"

Answer 1

The .prop() function is a nice way of doing this.

// Very jQuery
$('#mydiv').prop('tagName');

// Less jQuery
$('#mydiv')[0].tagName;

Both give the same result.

And, as Aram Kocharyan commented, you'll probably want to standardise it with .toLowerCase().