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JavaScript DOM HTML method: getElementsByTagName()

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The getElementsByTagName() method (when applied to HTML elements in the JavaScript DOM) returns a NodeList containing all the elements with the specified tag name (i.e. element type).

 

It has the following syntax with the following parameters. It returns a NodeList representing a collection of all relevant elements, ordered as they appear in the source code.

 

element.getElementsByTagName(tagname)

 

Parameter

Required / Optional

Description

tagame

Required

String specifying the tag name of the elements you want to obtain

 


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