Question

Let us say I have in HTML:

<input name="something" id="someid" />

And then in Jquery, I want to click on some element and after I click I want to get the tag name of the element.

So this.getTheTagName.

Everything I tried so far does not really work, especially for input tag.

Answer 1

You probably mean the name attribute and not the tag name.

alert($('#someid').attr('name'));

If you did mean the tag name, use .prop('tagName'):

alert($('#someid').prop('tagName'));

Here’s an example for both: http://jsfiddle.net/wwQ7h/