How to get all elements which name starts with some string?

Question

I have an HTML page. I would like to extract all elements whose name starts with \"q1_\".

How can I achieve this in JavaScript?

Answer 1

HTML DOM querySelectorAll() method seems apt here.

W3School Link given here

Syntax (As given in W3School)

document.querySelectorAll(CSS selectors)

So the answer.

document.querySelectorAll("[name^=q1_]")

Fiddle

Edit:

Considering FLX's suggestion adding link to MDN here