DOM:element.className

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Syntax and values 3 Example 4 Notes 5 Specification

[edit] Summary

className gets and sets the value of the class attribute of the specified element.

[edit] Syntax and values

var cName = elementNodeReference.className;
elementNodeReference.className = cName;

cName is a string variable representing the class or space-separated classes of the current element.

[edit] Example

var elementNodeReference = document.getElementById("div1");
if (elementNodeReference.className == "fixed") 
  {
   // skip a particular class of element
   goNextElement();
  };

[edit] Notes

The name className is used for this property instead of class because of conflicts with the "class" keyword in many languages which are used to manipulate the DOM.

[edit] Specification

DOM Level 2 HTML: className