Javascript question

[Eraser]

Does anyone know if it's possible to determine what sort of object an object is? I hook the object with getElementById:

myObject = document.getElementById("nameofelement");

Then I want to know whether myObject is an <input> element or <textarea> element. Is this possible? And if so, how?

[MKJ]

do you want "nameoflelement" to be whatever the myObject is ?

[Eraser]

do you want "nameoflelement" to be whatever the myObject is ?

myObject is simply the <input> element or <textarea> element in my HTML. However, I don't know if myObject is <input> or <textarea>, and that is what I wish to find out.

[4days]

.type?

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for (var i = 0; i < document.myForm.elements.length; i++) {
   document.writeln("<br />type is " + document.myForm.elements[i].type)
}

[Eraser]

hmm that seems to return "text" with both <input type="text"> and <textarea> tags

[4days]

sorry, missed the rest of your post. you'll have to specify some other detail about the textarea elements. is there a reason you can't give the form elements ids or classes, or grab them by name?

[neh]

you could test for null on its maxlength property - textarea doesnt have one so the ref returned should be null

[neh]

lol - actually you'd need to brute force that check in a try catch block