How do you check if a JavaScript Object is a DOM Object?

Question

I\'m trying to get:

document.createElement(\'div\')  //=> true
{tagName: \'foobar something\'}  //=> false

In my own scripts, I used

Answer 1

here's a trick using jQuery

var obj = {};
var element = document.getElementById('myId'); // or simply $("#myId")

$(obj).html() == undefined // true
$(element).html() == undefined // false

so putting it in a function:

function isElement(obj){

   return (typeOf obj === 'object' && !($(obj).html() == undefined));

}