Question

Hi How can I get hold of elements within a Div that uses a class say “sample”?

There are many Div’s in the document

<div class="sample"/>
..
<div class="sample"/>
..
<div class="sample"/>
..
<div id = "samplediv">
  <div class="sample">
  <div>
</div>

My question was to find the div with class sample and manipulate some properties of this div. So I want to get hold of the Div with class = “sample”?

Answer 1

In most modern browsers, you can get objects by class name using the function:

getElementsByClassName("sample")

This is available on any element, including document (as in document.getElementsByClassName). Problem is, older browsers don’t support this. Instead, you can use jQuery to do the same thing:

$(".sample")

Hope this helps!