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XML DOM tagName Property

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Definition and Usage

The tagName property returns the tag name of the selected element.

Syntax

elementNode.tagName
 

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets the tag name from the first <title> element:

Example

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
document.write(x.tagName);

The output of the code above will be:

title

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