Get Tag Name

[Ciary]

hi all,

does anyone know how i can get the tagtype based on id?
e.g.

<div id="foo"><p id="bar">test</p><img id="hi" src="hi.jpg"/></div>
 
alert(getTag("foo"));  //would return 'div'
alert(getTag("bar"));  //would return 'p'
alert(getTag("hi"));  //would return 'img'
 

does anyone know how this can be done?

[acoder]

Use document.getElementById() to get the element and then use the tagName property to get the tag name/type.

[Ciary]

i didn't know that property existed.
sorry for the basic question and thanks acoder :)

[Dormilich]

a quick overview what properties are on element nodes.

[Ciary]

ty Dormilich. that's very usefull :)