How to get the baselayer selected in leaflet

Question

How to get the baselayer selected in leaflet?

Answer 1

Listen for the baselayerchange event on your mapinstance:

Fired when the base layer is changed through the layer control.

http://leafletjs.com/reference.html#map-baselayerchange

map.on('baselayerchange', function (e) {
    console.log(e.layer);
});