> > From: Laurent Yaish
> >
> > 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'
> From: Brandon Aaron
>
> 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; };
That would certainly do the trick. I can't resist a little code
optimization... :-)
jQuery.fn.tag = function() { return this[0] && this[0].tagName; };
> or you could just do it like this:
>
> $('span').parent().get(0).tagName
Or:
$('span').parent()[0].tagName
Although here I can see where one might prefer the .get(0) for clarity - not
sure which I like better.
-Mike
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