Many of us have encountered the problem of choosing which selector to use from the list of JavaScript selectors. Using the right selector can solve enormous amount of problem and can make the code readable and clean. To get a clear glimpse of how to use the selectors, let us take a look at what all these selectors are and what is their functionality - document.getElementById() : This selector returns only one element with a specified Id. Also as we know that only one element can poses a specific Id, so the latter is obvious. syntax - document.getElementById("main_item-Id"); There is no requirement to add "#" before mentioning the Id of the element in this selector. document.getElementsByClassName() : This one returns a HTML Collection of all the elements having the specified class as that mentioned in the selector. Notice the "s" after element, it represents the same thing. ...