Question

is there any elegant way to get element type by name?

I can expect rendered form contains dropdowns, inputs, tables, divs with name like “answer[x]” where x represent some number.
I need element type to know how to handle it.
I can try to get object with :

$('td[name=answer\\[1\\]]') 
$('div[name=answer\\[1\\]]')
$('input[name=answer\\[1\\]]')

and when $('input[name=answer\\[x\\]]').length > 0 then “great! its input!”.
It just doesn’t look like elegant way…

Answer 1

For me $("[name='answer[" + x + "]'")[0].tagName is quite elegant 🙂