How to get the selected tag name ?

ar11x · Post by **ar11x** » March 17th, 2015, 9:48 pm

I wanna get the selected object's tag name and save it as a variable.
But what's the function !?

I knew about Document.getElementById()...but i dont know all about the capturing of 'tag name'

As follow image I wanna the result is 'input'
http://i.imgur.com/HORsGOR.png

Post by **DanRaisch** » March 18th, 2015, 4:15 am

Moving to Web Development.

Frenzie · Post by **Frenzie** » March 18th, 2015, 4:29 am

You can find a decent practical DOM reference on MDN. The example on the page happens to illustrate the answer your question: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... nt/tagName

ar11x · Post by **ar11x** » March 18th, 2015, 8:06 am

DanRaisch wrote:Moving to Web Development.

Thanks !
Pardon me.
I am not unfamiliar of this forum.

Frenzie wrote:You can find a decent practical DOM reference on MDN. The example on the page happens to illustrate the answer your question: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... nt/tagName

Hi. Cool method.

But I wanna get the Element what I "selected already".

As above image.I did selected the 'input'(Search bar of Google).
Is any method for this !?

Post by **trolly** » March 18th, 2015, 8:32 am

Do you mean in a site script or in Inspector?

Frenzie · Post by **Frenzie** » March 18th, 2015, 10:11 am

I'm a little unclear as to what you mean. To be a little bit more explicit, the tag name of that element would be obtained using:

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document.getElementById('last-ib.whatever').tagName

jscher2000 · Post by **jscher2000** » March 19th, 2015, 10:27 pm

If you mean selected as in selected with the mouse, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Selection

If you mean the active/focused form element, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/ ... iveElement

ar11x · Post by **ar11x** » March 23rd, 2015, 8:02 pm

jscher2000 wrote:If you mean selected as in selected with the mouse, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Selection

If you mean the active/focused form element, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/ ... iveElement

Sorry about lately response.

Thank you about sharing those docs.

I'll give it a try if it really as I want !

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