javascript get element by class name

var y = document.getElementsByClassName('foo');
var aNode = y[0];

Using JavaScript, we can get element by id using following syntax:

var x=document.getElementById("by_id"); I tried following to get element by class:

var y=document.getElementByClass("by_class")...

BETA Snippet explanation automatically generated by OpenAI:

Here is what the above code is doing:
1. The variable x is assigned to a function call.

2. The function is document.getElementsByClassName('foo');. This function returns an array of nodes that have the class name foo.

3. The variable y is assigned to the return

Snippet By Tony Lea

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Created October 7th, 2021

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