Get the selected tag name from a html form using javascript

Asked Sep 28 '12 at 13:33

Active Sep 28 '12 at 13:36

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I want to ask if there is a way to get the current selected tag name from a form .To make it more clear please take a look at the example below .

<form name='get_state'  id="catalog" action='post.php' method='POST' >
 <select name='plateDescr' onchange="window.loadStates()"></select>
 <select id="matType"  name="matType" onchange="window.loadStates()" hidden="hidden"></select>
</form>

For example if the select tag with name 'plateDescr' is currently selected i want to get exactly this value 'plateDescr'. Is there anyway of doing this. Thanks in advance!

edited Sep 28 '12 at 13:36

Sirko

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asked Sep 28 '12 at 13:33

axel

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do you mean the field in focus? a value is selected and the field is focused – Sruly Sep 28 '12 at 13:35
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`document.activeElement.name` should return `plateDescr`. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/document.activeElement – Michael Berkowski Sep 28 '12 at 13:38
That solved my problem. Thank you very much for the fast response. – axel Sep 28 '12 at 13:48

Get the selected tag name from a html form using javascript

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