HTML DOM nodeType Property

Last Updated : 13 Jun, 2023

The DOM nodeType Property is used to find out the type of the node that we are referring to. The type for a particular node is returned in numerical form. DOM nodeType property is a read-only property.

Return value : It returns a numeric value as according to the type of node.

1: If node is an element node.
2: If node is an attribute node.
3: If node is a text node.
8: If node is a comment node.

Syntax:

 nodeName.nodeType

Example-1:

html

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
      HTML|DOM nodeType Property 
    </title> 
    <style> 
        p, 
        h5 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align: center;"> 
    <p id="gfg"> 
      GeeksforGeeks 
    </p> 
    <h5> 
      Welcome to GeeksforGeeks 
    </h5> 
  
    <button onclick="node()"> 
        Click here to know the node type. 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="nodetype"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        function node() { 
            var geek = document.getElementById("gfg").nodeType; 
  
            // innerHTML fetches value of element  
            // valued "nodetype"  
            // and update it with new value of variable 
            // "geek"(nodeType value of geek) 
            document.getElementById("nodetype").innerHTML = geek; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Before:

After:

Example-2:

html

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>HTML|DOM nodeType Property</title> 
    <style> 
        h5 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align: center;"> 
    <h3>Welcome to GeeksforGeeks</h3> 
  
    <button onclick="nType()"> 
        Click here to know the node type. 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="nodetype"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        // nType() function is used to fetch our node 
        // and find out its type  
        function nType() { 
            var geek = document.body.nodeType; 
            document.getElementById("nodetype").innerHTML = geek; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 