What is the best way to get an element by its class name using JavaScript?
Can I just use something like document.getElementByClassName(‘myClass’) ?
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What is the best way to get an element by its class name using JavaScript?
Can I just use something like document.getElementByClassName(‘myClass’) ?
Yup, there is such a thing as
getElementsByClassName()and here’s a browser support list which pretty much says “All recent browsers except IE8 and below”also, there is
querySelectorAll()which uses CSS selectors. It’s pretty much similar to how jQuery does it. Here’s a browser support list of it, which also says “All recent browsers except IE7 and below”