How do I determine an HTML input element type upon an event using jQuery?

Question

Given the following sample code:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(\":input\").blur(function(){
        alert(\"The input type is:\" );  //How would this l         


        

Answer 1

How can I deteminedetermine whether this is an input, select, text, etc?

Note that select, textarea, "etc" elements are not covered by $('input'). You probably rather want to use $(':input') to get them all.

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(':input').blur(function(){
        alert('The tag is:' + this.tagName);
        if (this.tagName == 'INPUT') {
           alert("The input type is:" + $(this).attr('type'));
        }
    })
});