Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on XML DOM. In this tutorial, we are going to be studying about the XML DOM Element Object tagName Attribute.
The DOM Element object tagname attribute gives the name of the tag for the specified element.
The DOM Element object tagname attribute gives the name of the tag for the specified element.
Syntax
The following below is the syntax to use the XML DOM tagName Attribute -
elementObj.tagName
Example
Following are the node.xml contents -
<?xml version = "1.0"?> <Company> <Employee category = "Technical"> <FirstName>Kennedy</FirstName> <LastName>Nkpara</LastName> <ContactNo>1234567890</ContactNo> <Email>[email protected]</Email> </Employee> <Employee category = "Non-Technical"> <FirstName>Stephanie</FirstName> <LastName>Francis</LastName> <ContactNo>1234667898</ContactNo> <Email>[email protected]</Email> </Employee> <Employee category = "Management"> <FirstName>Justice</FirstName> <LastName>Dauglas</LastName> <ContactNo>1234562350</ContactNo> <Email>[email protected]</Email> </Employee> </Company>
The following example illustrates the usage of the Element Object tagName attribute -
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <script> if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); } else { xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } xmlhttp.open("GET","/dom/node.xml",false); xmlhttp.send(); xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML; x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("Email")[0]; document.write("Tagname is :"+ x.tagName); </script> </body> </html>
Output
Save file as elementattribute_tagname.html on the server's path (this file and node.xml should be on the same path in your server). This is going to give us the following output below -
Tagname is : Email
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