Select div using wildcard ID

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Just thought it was worth updating the thread with a more recent way of doing this in JavaScript as was still coming up in searches.

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

caniuse.com lists it can be used on IDs from IE8 and great support in other browsers.

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