Javascript getElementById based on a partial string

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You can use the querySelector for that:

document.querySelector('[id^="poll-"]').id;

The selector means: get an element where the attribute [id] begins with the string "poll-".

^ matches the start
* matches any position
$ matches the end

jsfiddle

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