You could do two things ... write yourself a plugin that would look
something like this:
jQuery.fn.tag = function() {
return this[0] ? this[0].tagName : null;
};
or you could just do it like this:
$('span').parent().get(0).tagName
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Brandon Aaron
On 11/10/06, Laurent Yaish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I couldn't find a way using jQuery to get the tagName of an element.
>
> Let's say I have this:
>
> <div><span>test</span></div>
> $('span').parent().tag() would return 'div'
>
> is that currently possible?
> I found the is() function, maybe that could be changed to return the tagname
> if no argument is passed
>
> Thanks!
>
> Laurent
>
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