Question

so suppose I call document.getElementsByName("title"); in javascript

and I want to know the type of the tag of the element that is returned by that function, for instance, to see if it’s a meta tag or a div tag or a span tag, etc

how would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

document.getElementsByName("title"); returns a set of elements not a single element
so within a cycle you could use element.tagName to get the tag

basicly

document.getElementsByName("title")[0].tagName should work