html - Get all elements in the body tag using pure javascript

Question

I'm trying to get all the elements (tags) inside the Body tag of an HTML page in an array using pure javascript. I mean without using any framework (ex. JQuery).

I've found that you can use document.all but that will return all the elements inside the whole document including the scripts.

Is there anyway I can get those tags?

Answer 1

If you want all elements inside the body tag, not just first level children, you can simply use getElementsByTagName() with a wildcard:

var elems = document.body.getElementsByTagName("*");