The end result I\'m after is a JavaScript array containing a list of tag names that are used in the HTML document eg:
div, span, section, h1, h2, p, etc...
I wan
Get all tagnames in the document, unique, crossbrowser, plain js:
var els = document.getElementsByTagName('*'), tags = [], tmp = {}
for (var i=0;i<els.length;i+=1){
if (!(els[i].tagName in tmp)){
tags.push(els[i].tagName);
tmp[els[i].tagName] = 1;
}
}
use
if (!(els[i].tagName in tmp)
&& !/head/i.test(els[i].parentNode.tagName)
&& !/html|head/i.test(els[i].tagName))
to exclude the <head>
To get a unique list of tagnames in a document as an array that works in all browsers back to IE 6 and equivalent:
function listTagNames() {
var el, els = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');
var tagCache = {};
var tagname, tagnames = [];
for (var i=0, iLen=els.length; i<iLen; i++) {
tagname = els[i].tagName.toLowerCase();
if ( !(tagname in tagCache) ) {
tagCache[tagname] = tagname;
tagnames.push(tagname);
}
}
return tagnames;
}
If you think there might be an inherited object property that is the same as a tag name, use a propertyIsEnumerable test:
if (!tagCache.propertyIsEnumerable(tagname)) {
so it will work even in Safari < 2.
What you're looking for is document.all.tagName
At the top of my head, a for loop like this should do it (providing that you're gonna filter the tags you don't want on that list)
for(i = 0; i < document.all.length; i++)
{
console.log(document.all[i].tagName);
}
Here is a cross-browser solution:
var tags = {}; // maintains object of tags on the page and their count
var recurse = function(el) {
// if element node
if(el.nodeType == 1) {
if(!tags[el.tagName])
tags[el.tagName] = 0;
tags[el.tagName]++;
}
// recurse through the children
for(var i = 0, children = el.childNodes, len = children.length; i < len; i++) {
recurse(children[i]);
}
}
recurse(document);
// if you want just what's in the body(included)
var bodies = document.getElementsByTagName("body");
for(var i = 0; i < bodies.length; i++)
recurse(bodies[i]);