Change a Style of all Elements with a specific Class in JS

# Change a Style of all Elements with a specific Class in JS

To change the styles of all elements with a specific class:

Use the querySelectorAll() method to get a collection of the elements with the specific class.
Use the forEach() method to iterate over the collection.
On each iteration, use the style object to change the element's styles.

Here is the HTML for the examples.

index.html

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>bobbyhadz.com</title>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />

    <style>
      .box {
        background-color: salmon;
        color: white;
        width: 150px;
        height: 150px;
        margin: 10px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="box">Box content 1</div>
    <div class="box">Box content 2</div>
    <div class="box">Box content 3</div>

    <script src="index.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

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And here is the related JavaScript code.

index.js

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const boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box');

boxes.forEach(box => {
  box.style.backgroundColor = 'purple';
  box.style.width = '300px';
});

change style of all elements with specific class

The code for this article is available on GitHub

We used the document.querySelectorAll() method to select all DOM elements with a class of box.

The querySelectorAll method returns a NodeList containing the elements that match the selector.

The function we passed to the NodeList.forEach() method gets called with each element in the NodeList.

On each iteration, we set properties on the element's style object to update its styles.

index.js

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const boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box');

boxes.forEach(box => {
  box.style.backgroundColor = 'purple';
  box.style.width = '300px';
});

The code for this article is available on GitHub

Note that multi-word properties like background color are camel-cased when accessed on the style object.

# Change a style of all Elements with a specific Class using getElementsByClassName

You could also use the document.getElementsByClassName method to select the elements with the specific class.

However, the method returns an HTMLCollection.

Make sure to convert the HTMLCollection to an array before calling the forEach() method.

index.js

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const boxes = Array.from(
  document.getElementsByClassName('box')
);

boxes.forEach(box => {
  box.style.backgroundColor = 'purple';
  box.style.width = '300px';
});

The code for this article is available on GitHub

The code snippet achieves the same result by using the getElementsByClassName() method.

We used the Array.from() method to convert the HTMLCollection to an array before calling the forEach method.

If I open my browser, I can see that the inline styles have been successfully applied to all elements with the class of box.

styles applied to elements with class

Alternatively, you can iterate over the HTMLCollection directly without converting it to an array by using a for...of loop.

index.js

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const boxes = document.getElementsByClassName('box');

for (const box of boxes) {
  box.style.backgroundColor = 'purple';
  box.style.width = '300px';
}

The code for this article is available on GitHub

The for...of statement is used to loop over iterable objects like arrays, strings, Map, Set and NodeList objects and generators.

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Change a Style of all Elements with a specific Class in JS