How can I determine the type of an HTML element in JavaScript?
nodeName is the attribute you are looking for. For example:
var elt = document.getElementById('foo');
console.log(elt.nodeName);
Note that nodeName returns the element name capitalized and without the angle brackets, which means that if you want to check if an element is an <div> element you could do it as follows:
elt.nodeName == "DIV"
While this would not give you the expected results:
elt.nodeName == "<div>"
What about element.tagName?
See also tagName docs on MDN.