XML DOM tagName attribute

Definition and Usage

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

Syntax

elementNode.tagName

Example

The following code loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc and retrieves the tag name from the first <title> element:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
   if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
       myFunction(this);
   }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books.xml", true);
xhttp.send();
function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x.tagName;
}

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