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    <p>Hopefully I can ask this in an understandable way...</p> <p>Overall, I am trying to determine what type of object I am currently dealing with.</p> <p>I'm creating a collection (HTML is example, not literal) and I need to filter my collection to certain elements eg:</p> <pre><code> &lt;div id="tabContentWrap"&gt; &lt;div id="tab"&gt; &lt;a href="http://somelink"&gt;Link Element&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="img.jpg" alt="img" /&gt; &lt;select id="my_select"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; function getFilteredElements() { var tabContent = getElementsByClass("tabContentWrap", document.getElementById(tabWrapId), "div"); for (var j = 0; j &lt; tabContent.length; j++){ tabContentLinks = tabContent[j].getElementsByTagName('*'); for (var k = 0; k &lt; tabContentLinks.length; k++){ // Here i attempt to filter the collection if (tabContentLinks[k] == '[object HTMLSelectElement]') { alert("found select list"); } } } } </code></pre> <p>Which works fine in Mozilla but not in Internet Explorer 8, <code>tabContentLinks[k]</code> returns <code>[object]</code> instead of <code>[object 'ObjectType']</code></p> <p>So I investigated and discovered that you can use <code>Object.prototype.toString.call(object)</code> to get the object type, which again works fine in Mozilla but returns <code>[object Object]</code> in IE8...</p> <p>I call</p> <pre><code>get_type(tabContentsLink[k]); </code></pre> <p>which runs the following function:</p> <pre><code>function get_type(thing){ if (thing === null) return "[object Null]"; // special case return Object.prototype.toString.call(thing); } </code></pre> <p>But this just returns <code>[object Object]</code></p> <p>Does <code>Object.prototype.toString.call()</code> ever return the type of object in IE or am I very far off and barking up a lamppost instead of a tree?</p>
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