Question

State one similiarity between the returned value of getElementsByTagName() and getElementsByClass()

Answer 1

The return type of both the methods is a Live HTMLCollection.

Step-by-step explanation:

• Both the methods getElementsByClassName() and getElementsByTagName() returns a Live HTMLCollection.
• Both the methods result in the collection of elements according to the method name.

• The method getElementsByClassName() results in the elements with the given class name.
• The method getElementsByTagName() results in the elements with the given Tag name.
• As stated above both the methods returns HTMLCollection which are live. That means the methods take care of the changing tag names and class names.
• If there are any updates to the class names and tag names, the list gets updated accordingly.