IDOMNode.nodeName Property

Indicates the name of the node.

Pascal

property nodeName: DOMString;

C++

__property DOMString nodeName;

Read nodeName to determine the name of the DOM node. The value of nodeName depends on the type of the node, as indicated in the following table:

nodeType	nodeName
ATTRIBUTE_NODE	The name of the attribute.
ELEMENT_NODE	The tag name for the node.
TEXT_NODE	#text
CDATA_SECTION_NODE	#cdata-section
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE	The name of the entity reference.
ENTITY_NODE	The entity name.
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE	The target of the processing instruction.
COMMENT_NODE	#comment
DOCUMENT_NODE	#document
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE	The document type name.
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE	#document-fragment
NOTATION_NODE	The notation name.

Note: If the prefix and localName properties are defined for a node, nodeName is the combination of those two values.