"document.getElementByClass is not a function"

I am trying to run a function onclick of any button with class="stopMusic". I'm getting an error in Firebug

document.getElementByClass is not a function

Here is my code:

var stopMusicExt = document.getElementByClass("stopButton");
    stopButton.onclick = function() {
        var ta = document.getElementByClass("stopButton");
        document['player'].stopMusicExt(ta.value);
        ta.value = "";
    };

You probably meant document.getElementsByClassName() (and then grabbing the first item off the resulting node list):

var stopMusicExt = document.getElementsByClassName("stopButton")[0];

stopButton.onclick = function() {
    var ta = document.getElementsByClassName("stopButton")[0];
    document['player'].stopMusicExt(ta.value);
    ta.value = "";
};

You may still get the error

document.getElementsByClassName is not a function

in older browsers, though, in which case you can provide a fallback implementation if you need to support those older browsers.

As others have said, you're not using the right function name and it doesn't exist univerally in all browsers.

If you need to do cross-browser fetching of anything other than an element with an id with document.getElementById(), then I would strongly suggest you get a library that supports CSS3 selectors across all browsers. It will save you a massive amount of development time, testing and bug fixing. The easiest thing to do is to just use jQuery because it's so widely available, has excellent documentation, has free CDN access and has an excellent community of people behind it to answer questions. If that seems like more than you need, then you can get Sizzle which is just a selector library (it's actually the selector engine inside of jQuery and others). I've used it by itself in other projects and it's easy, productive and small.

If you want to select multiple nodes at once, you can do that many different ways. If you give them all the same class, you can do that with:

var list = document.getElementsByClassName("myButton");
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
    // list[i] is a node with the desired class name
}

and it will return a list of nodes that have that class name.

In Sizzle, it would be this:

var list = Sizzle(".myButton");
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
    // list[i] is a node with the desired class name
}

In jQuery, it would be this:

$(".myButton").each(function(index, element) {
    // element is a node with the desired class name
});

In both Sizzle and jQuery, you can put multiple class names into the selector like this and use much more complicated and powerful selectors:

$(".myButton, .myInput, .homepage.gallery, #submitButton").each(function(index, element) {
    // element is a node that matches the selector
});

Before jumping into any further error checking please first check whether its

document.getElementsByClassName() itself.

double check its getElements and not getElement

It should be getElementsByClassName, and not getElementByClass. See this - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.getElementsByClassName.

Note that some browsers/versions may not support this.

My solutions is:

Change:

document.getElementsByClassName('.className')

To:
```
document.querySelector('.className')
```

"document.getElementByClass is not a function"

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