Question

I have an interating function that assigns id’s. i.e. like

$('#mycooldiv' + idNumber).text();

I’m wondering how I can take this – '#mycooldiv' + idNumber and use it within a

var div = document.getElementById('#mycooldiv' + idNumber); – because the later doesn’t work ?

I have also tried

var elem = $('#mycooldiv' + idNumber);
var div = document.getElementById(elem);

and that fails as well ?

Answer 1

document.getElementById just need the id, the # is not needed.

var div = document.getElementById('mycooldiv' + idNumber);