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

Usual way to do this within css is to give the elements a class 'statusMessage' in addition to their unique ids. Then you can create a css rule with a selector that will affect all elements with that class. Eg

 .statusMessage {color: red;}

Remember that elements can have more than one class. Eg