document.querySelectorAll

Returns a list of the elements within the document (using depth-first pre-order traversal of the document's nodes) that match the specified group of selectors. The object returned is a NodeList.

Syntax

elementList = document.querySelectorAll(selectors);

where

• elementList is a non-live NodeList of element objects.
• selectors is a string containing one or more CSS selectors separated by commas.

The returned NodeList will contain all the elements in the document that are matched by any of the specified selectors. If the selectors string contains a CSS pseudo-element, the returned elementList will be empty.

Examples

This example returns a list of all div elements within the document with a class of either "note" or "alert":

var matches = document.querySelectorAll("div.note, div.alert");

Another example use it as a function:

function getElements(elmSel) {
    return document.querySelectorAll(elmSel);
}  

getElements(".note");

Notes

Returns a non-live NodeList of all the matching element nodes.

Throws a SYNTAX_ERR exception if the specified group of selectors is invalid.

querySelectorAll() was introduced in the WebApps API.

The string argument passed to querySelectorAll must follow the CSS syntax. See document.querySelector for concrete examples.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

[1] Internet Explorer 8 only supported CSS2 selectors.

See also

• Element.querySelectorAll
• document.querySelector
• element.querySelector
• Code snippets for querySelector
• NodeList