[thelist] Identifying HTML Elements with javascript

[Ben Glassman]

Great. nodeName is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,

Ben

On 7/7/06, Christian Heilmann <codepo8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working on a javascript form validation script and I am trying to
> > cycle through an array of html objects (in this case they are form
> > elements, inputs, selects, etc.) and I want to know what the best way
> > to get javascript to figure out exactly what type of object it is
> > dealing with so I can execute a different function to validate a text
> > field, select, radio, etc.
> >
> > Currently I've got it to work (for checking if its a select object)
> > with the following if statement
> >
> > if (elem == "[object HTMLSelectElement]") {
> >
> > }
>
> Loop through the DOM1 elements collection of the form and check for
> nodeName for each of them.
>
> Be aware that there is select-one and select-multiple.
>
> Or use getElementById and type.
>
> http://www.beginningjavascript.com/Chapter9/topList.js
>
>
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