Checking equality of 2 DOM Elements

Question

How may I check if 2 Dom element are same.

Form example

var element1 = document.getElementById("abc"); var element2 = document.getElementById("abc"); 

Now how should I chekc that these 2 elements are equal?

Thanks

Answer 1

element1 and element2 are references to the same place in the DOM tree. Just check

if( element1 == element2 ) {   alert("same") ; } 

Answer 2

Check out the API for DOM nodes. It seems like you could use isEqualNode to achieve this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/isEqualNode