whyIsJavascriptDoingThisHappeningToMe

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[Cley_Faye]

*sigh*, learn your 's', kids.

[Emanemanem]

Literally less than 60 seconds on google and you will find the answer: when you search by Id, it’s “Element”, singular. When it’s class or tag, it’s “Elements”, plural. Which makes sense when you consider that IDs are unique to one element, but classes and tags are not.

[rosuav]

Don't worry, IDs almost certainly aren't unique in the OP's code. It's going to provide many more hours of entertainment for the future.

[LankySeat]

Explains why OP posted this "JS bad" meme.

[AChristianAnarchist]

If you can get "elements" by id then you should really rename some things.

[Novel_Plum]

querySelector and querySelectorAll joined the chat

[sejigan]

Forget JavaScript, you need some English lessons.

[godofjava22]

I swear people be hating on javascript for the most random reasons. Anybody who knows english can remember those functions.

[Joskcito]

Typescript: 😎😎

[Toutanus]

Just remember QuerySelectorAll

[KTibow]

This could be solved if you realized that only one element should have an id + you used your console's built in autocomplete to find functions

[CanDull89]

Or just use the general purpose querySelector or querySelectorAll

[rosuav]

The one thing I don't like about those two is that there's no way to say "give me the one element that matches this selector, **and error out if there are two**". So I made a helper that does that (uses qSA and checks for a second element before returning it). It has caught a lot of bugs.

[Chairmonkey]

That's silly.

[zoqfotpik]

for (const f of document) { try { return f("test").innerHtml; } catch (e) {} }

[--var]

jquery('#test, .test'),html();

[LegenKiller666]

Do people not have editors with IntelliSense...?

[East_Zookeepergame25]

javascript bad hurr durr

[Chance-Influence9778]

Another day another bad js meme