Question

If a user places HTML in a textarea field, how can I check if text inserted is an <object> tag?

If true, I want to assign the src attribute of the <object> to a variable.

What the most efficient way to do this?

<div id="embed">
    <textarea>
        <object src="..."></object>
    </textarea>
</div>

Answer 1

var $obj = $($("#embed textarea").text());
var src = $obj.is("object") ? $obj.attr("src") : null;

fixed it