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How to Get Element By Class in JavaScript?

I need to get the text from inside of a span. The span has no ID. It only has a class. There would only be one span with this class. Does anyone know how I can get this span element in javascript? Thanks!

<span class="galleria-current">1</span>

This is slightly different than How to Get Element By Class in JavaScript? which is asking the more generic “get an element with a class”, in case there’s an easier way for spans, plus that question is about replacing text, whereas I want to get the innerHTML in this case.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use document.getElementsByClassName().

This will return an Array of all the elements with that classname. So the first one could be accessed like this:

var span = document.getElementsByClassName("galleria-current")[0]