Find all elements whose id begins with a common string

Question

I have a XSL that created multiple elements with the id of \"createdOn\" plus a $unique-id

Example : createdOnid0xfff5db30

I want to find a

Answer 1

Because you didn't tag jQuery, and you probably don't need it, my suggestion would be to add a class to these elements when you create them. Then use the getElementsByClassName() function that's built into most browsers. For IE you would need to add something like this:

if (typeof document.getElementsByClassName!='function') {
    document.getElementsByClassName = function() {
        var elms = document.getElementsByTagName('*');
        var ei = new Array();
        for (i=0;i