Select div using wildcard ID

Question

How to select a div using it\'s ID but with a widcard?

If the DIV\'s ID is statusMessage_1098, I would like to select it in some way like document

Answer 1

I'm not sure how you're populating it but if it's from the code behind you could try something like:

document.getElementById('statusMessage_<%= generatedID %>')

where generatedID is the ID generated from the code behind.