Language References

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Retrieves the name of the element type.

HTML	N/A
Script	[ sName = ] object.tagName

sName

String containing the object’s tag name.

The property is read-only with no default value.

The following example retrieves the tagName for an object that has the identifier that was specified in the prompt window.

<script language="JavaScript">
var idVal = window.prompt ( 
  "Get the tag with this ID: " );
if ( idVal != null ) {
  alert ( document.all [ idVal ] .tagName )
}
</script>