In this tutorial we will see how to Change Class of HTML Tag Using JavaScript. The getElementById() Method and HTML DOM className Property are used for this purpose.
Table of Contents
HTML Code
HTML Code is given below, This code contains a paragraph element and a button element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Change Class of HTML Tag Using JavaScript</title>
</head>
<body>
<p id='main' class='one'>Change my Class using JavaScript</p>
<button onclick="changeClass()">Change Class</button>
</body>
</html>
getElementById() Method
The getElementById() Method is used to get or select or target the HTML element with a specified value of Id attribute.
In this example the id of paragraph element is 'main'. This id is used to target or select the paragraph element.
getElementById() Method is supported by all major browsers.
className Property
The JavaScript className Property sets or returns the class name of an element.
The JavaScript className Property is supported by all major browsers.
JavaScript Code
In this example getElementById method is used to select the paragraph tag. Then className property is used to change the class of the paragraph tag.
onclick event is used to trigger the main function (changeClass()) which performs this task.
Take a look at the code given below.
<script>
function changeClass()
{
document.getElementById("main").className = "two";
}
</script>
Demo
Video Tutorial
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