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How do I determine an HTML input element type upon an event using jQuery?

I want to get type of input object but I alway got “undefined”.
What is missing it this code?

var c = $("input[name=\'lastName\']");
c.val("test");
alert(c.type);

My form

<form action="formAction.jsp" method="post">
    FirstName <input type="text" name="firstName" id="firstName"></input><br/>
    LastName <input type="text" name="lastName"></input><br/>
    Address <input type="text" name="address"></input><br/>
    Tel <input type="text" name="tel"></input><br/>
    Email <input type="text" name="email"></input><br/>
</form>

Answer 1

$(c).attr('type')