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getElementsByClassName() rewritten

31st March 2003

Andy has rewritten getElementsByClassName, resulting in much cleaner code and a method which can be called on any DOM element, not just the document object.

Posted 31st March 2003 at 11:46 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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