What is the best way to get an element's tag name in JS?

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Published on 2010-05-01T21:11:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 21:17 UTC
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I want to get the name of a certain tag (to tell whether it is a div/input/span/p/so on)

I found that there are 3 different attributes that give me the tag name:

tagName, nodeName, and localName

My question is: Which one is the most supported in all browsers? And/or is there a method to get the tag name in Prototype (I looked but couldn't find one)?

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