finding the type of an element using jQuery

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In jQuery  if I have a reference to an element  how can I determine what kind of element it is  for example  an input or an dropdown   Is there any way to find out   Duplicate   How can I determine the element type of a matched element in jQuery

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It is worth noting that  Marius s second answer could be used as pure Javascript solution   document getElementById  elementId   tagName

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You can use  prop   with tagName as the name of the property that you want to get       elementId   prop  tagName

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The following will return true if the element is an input       elementId   is  input      or you can use the following to get the name of the tag       elementId   get 0  tagName

[jquery] finding the type of an element using jQuery

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