Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide

Introducing Aura Components
Quick Start
Creating Components
Using Components
Communicating with Events
Communicating Across the DOM with Lightning Message Service
Creating Apps
Styling Apps
Developing Secure Code
Using JavaScript
Working with Salesforce Data
Testing Components
Debugging
Performance
Reference
Lightning Component Library
System Tag Reference
JavaScript API
$A namespace
Action
AuraLocalizationService
Component
addEventHandler()
addHandler()
addValueHandler()
addValueProvider()
autoDestroy()
clearReference()
destroy()
find()
get()
getConcreteComponent()
getElement()
getElements()
getEvent()
getGlobalId()
getLocalId()
getName()
getReference()
getSuper()
getType()
getVersion()
isConcrete()
isInstanceOf()
isValid()
removeEventHandler()
set()
Event
Util
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isInstanceOf()

Checks whether a component is an instance of the given component or interface name.

Signature

isInstanceOf(String name)

Parameters

name
Type: String
The name of the component or interface, with a format of namespace:componentName.

Returns

Type: Boolean
Returns true if the component is an instance, or false otherwise.