So I have a file like
<div class="u1">
<p id="level1"></p>
<p id="level2"></p>
</div>
<div class="u2">
<p id="level1"></p>
<p id="level3"></p>
</div>
and if I use something like
document.getElementbyId("level1").innerText(or innerHtml) = "Hello"
it writes that string on one element, and not on every element with id="level1"
I tried with
$('#level1').text("Hello");
but it works only for one.
I need something to write a string on every element with id="level1".
ID is a unique identifier, so you can't have few items with the same ID. Provided HTML code is invalid. You can use CLASS attribute or data-id or....
If you can't change HTML and it comes from third-party dependency, then we have a list of NOT recommended but WORKING solutions
jQuery:
$('[id="level1"]').text("Hello");
js:
var elements = document.querySelectorAll('#level1'); + for loop to iterate elements
And a lot of similar solutions based on knowledges how elements selecting works under the hood
It is ideal to have Unique Ids and thus you cannot update it this way. What you can do is you can give it a class like this:
<div class="u1">
<p id="level1" class="helloText"></p>
<p id="level2"></p>
</div>
<div class="u2">
<p id="level1" class="helloText"></p>
<p id="level3"></p>
</div>
Now use this JS to update the HTML:
var paras = document.getElementsByClassName("helloText");
for (i = 0; i < paras.length; i++) {
paras[i].innerHTML = "Hello";
}
You can also remove the Ids or make them unique to make your code cleaner. It is never recommended to use duplicate Ids.
You give a classname to the elements you need:
class = "levels"
in the script, use document.getElementsByClassName, which return an array with all elements. then you can loop through that array to get the info of each elements.
let levels = document.getElementsByClassName("levels");
for (let j=0; j<levels.length; j++){
levels[j] do something...;
}
classinstead ofid