How To Get the HTML Tag Name of an Element Using jQuery

Author: , September 8th, 2012

var Tag = jQuery(‘yourElementSelector’).get(0).tagName.toLowerCase(); Note: nodeName also works in place of tagName!

How To Find The Type Of The Current Element Using jQuery

Author: , May 17th, 2011

Important Note: This solution REQUIRES jQuery 1.6 or better due to the addition of the :focus selector! Here is how I used it for a form in a jQuery UI dialog: