Is there a way to get the element type using an id or class with JQuery?

With the HTML as <div id="elementID"></div>, using JQuery I want to return div.

Is there a way to get the element type using an id or class with JQuery?

With the HTML as <div id="elementID"></div>, using JQuery I want to return div.

• javascript
• jquery
• html

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• 1 google./… – user1106925 Commented Dec 13, 2015 at 2:27
• 1 @squint I looked it up on Google, I couldn't find a thing. I wonder why it didn't show up in my search or in the Questions that may already have your answer section when writing my question. – ZomoXYZ Commented Dec 13, 2015 at 2:29
• 1 No problem. I just like to show people the search I used to find answers. Figure it'll help next time. Using the site: search feature helps quite a bit. – user1106925 Commented Dec 13, 2015 at 2:46

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Access the tagName property.

With JavaScript:

document.getElementById('elementID').tagName;
// or
document.querySelector('.elementClass').tagName;

With jQuery:

$('#elementID').prop('tagName');