Question

An HTML webpage is rendered in div. How can I allow the user to click and select any HTML tag? Similar to how Firebug and Chrome does it. I need the selected tag returned as is.

Answer 1

Add an event listener on your div and check for the event’s target property (srcElement for IE).

document.getElementById("page").onclick = function(e) {
    var target = e.target || e.srcElement;
    alert(e.target.tagName);
};

http://jsfiddle.net/Xeon06/e67qW/1/