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title: HTML DOM querySelector()
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---
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# HTML DOM querySelector()
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The Document method `querySelector()` returns the `first` Element within the document that matches the specified selector, or group of selectors. If no matches are found,null is returned.
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**HTML content:**
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```html
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<div id="id-example"></div>
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<div class="class-example"></div>
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<a>element-example</a>
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```
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**JavaScript content:**
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```javascript
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document.querySelector("#id-example"); // Returns the element with id "id-example"
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document.querySelector(".class-example"); // Returns the element with class "class-example"
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document.querySelector("a"); // Returns the "a" element
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```
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Note `querySelector()` returns the first matching element, to return all the matches, use the querySelectorAll() method instead.
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```html
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<div id="example">First</div>
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<div id="example">Second</div>
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```
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```javascript
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document.querySelector("#example"); // Returns only the element containing 'First'
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```
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#### More Information:
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<a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/querySelector' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>MDN - document.querySelector()</a>
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