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className

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This property gets/sets the class of the current element

Syntax

name = element.className
 
element.className = name
 

Parameters

name is a string representing the class of the current element.

Example

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

Notes

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

Specification

className