Get an element that has an ID which starts with some characters using Dojo

Question

I have a node defined by the following HTML markup:

<div id="_13:3AVAsa7qVvAprAar19ie8LRorrLEm2g" >asdf</div>

I need to get a reference to it without using it's full id like:

dojo.byId('_13:*'); 

Is it possible or is there any other ways that could be achieved?

Answer 1

You should use the attribute starts-with selector .

I've never used Dojo, but looking here:
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dojo/query.html

It seems that you need this:

dojo.query('div[id^="_13:"]')

That same link also contains examples of other useful selectors at the end of the page.