Is there a unique identifier for a textbox?

[pizzaguy]

When the user fires a event, either by mouse click or key press, is there a way to tell the control firing that event is a textbox. I am trying to write a generic function on document level to handle the event if it is fired by a textbox, but it did not seem to have a unique indentifier for a textbox: not the tagName "INPUT" which is shared by other form objects, and I cannot use id name or class since not all textboxes have a common pattern. Is there a "type" property for the tag "INPUT"? I have tried this but do not seem to work.

[beetle]

if ( obj.tagName == 'INPUT' && obj.type == 'text' )

[pizzaguy]

It works, thank beetle.

[beetle]

Also, so you know, the DOM-Approved® property equivalent to tagName is nodeName

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[jkd]

Originally posted by beetle
Also, so you know, the DOM-Approved® property equivalent to tagName is nodeName

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tagName is fine if nodeType == 7
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#ID-745549614