I need a XB (Cross Browser) method of detecting if an argument is a HTML Element.
Using the following code gives different results in different browsers:
Object.prototype.toString.call(element);
// returns in FF "[object HTMLDivElement]";
// returns in IE "[object Object]";
The other method I found was:
if(element.nodeType) // true for a HTML Element;
Does someone knows a XB tested solution?
You want this:
if (element.nodeType === element.ELEMENT_NODE)
// Element.prototype.ELEMENT_NODE === 1
if (element.nodeType) is almost always true. For example, the nodeType of a comment is 8, so it would be detected as an element with your code even though it isn't.
1 explicitly. Although the symbolic constant Node.ELEMENT_NODE has been defined since the earliest DOM Level 1 Core specs, IE does not provide it.