Can jQuery provide the tag name?

Question

You could try this:

if($(this).is('h1')){
  doStuff();
}

See the docs for more on is().

$(this).attr("id", "rnd" + $(this).attr("tag") + "_" + i.toString());

should be

$(this).attr("id", "rnd" + this.nodeName.toLowerCase() + "_" + i.toString());

Since I've hit this question once before and it didn't help me in my case (I didn't have a this, but instead had a jQuery selector instance). Calling get() will get you the HTML element, by which you can get the nodeName as mentioned above.

this.nodeName; // In a event handler, 'this' is usually the element the event is called on

or

$('.hello:first-child').get(0).nodeName; // Use 'get' or simply access the jQuery Object like an array
$('.hello:first-child')[0].nodeName;     // will get you the original DOM element object

You could also use $(this).prop('tagName'); if you're using jQuery 1.6 or higher.

Yes. You could use the below code:

this.tagName

I think you cannot use the nodeName in jQuery since nodeName is a DOM property and jQuery itself do not have a either a nodeName function or property. But based on the respondent who first mentioned about this nodeName stuff, this is how I was able to resolve the problem:

this.attr("id", "rnd" + this.attr("nodeName") + "_" + i.toString());

NOTE: this here is a jQuery object.