9.16. Determining Item Type
To determine an item's type, call the typemethod:
$canvas->type(tag/id);
If the tag or ID matches more than one item, only the type of the first item is returned. The returned value will be a string describing the item type: "oval", "text", "rectangle", and so on.
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