How can I use document.querySelector to select this class name with a space in it?

Question

<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="PrmryBtnMed"
 id = "VERYLONGTEXT"

onclick="$(this).parents('form').submit(); return false;"><span>Dispatch to this address</span></a>

I have been using

var inPage = document.documentElement.innerHTML.indexOf('text to search') > 0,
    el = document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed");

if (inPage && el) el.click();

But now, the class name has changed: there’s a space and some new text in the class name:

<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="PrmryBtnMed ApricotWheat"
 id = "VERYLONGTEXT"
onclick="ApricotWheat(this); return false;"><span>Dispatch to this address</span></a>

How can I change el = document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed"); to find the right class?

I tried using el = document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed.ApricotWheat"); but that didn’t work.

Next, I tried to add a space (and escape using a backslash): el = document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed\ ApricotWheat"); but that didn’t work either.

So, I wondered if I could use %20 for the space.. but no luck.

I’d be very grateful for some help! What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Classes can't have spaces, what you have there is an element with two separate classes on it. To select an element with two classes, you use a compound class selector:

 document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed.ApricotWheat");

That selects the first element in the document that has both the PrmryBtnMed class and the ApricotWheat class. Note that it doesn't matter what order those classes appear in in the class attribute, and it doesn't matter whether there are also other classes present. It would match any of these, for instance:

<div class="PrmryBtnMed ApricotWheat">...</div>

or

<div class="ApricotWheat PrmryBtnMed">...</div>

or

<div class="PrmryBtnMed foo baz ApricotWheat">...</div>

etc.

Also note that the quotes you're using around HTML attributes are sporatically invalid; the quotes around attributes must be normal, boring, single (') or double ("), they can't be fancy quotes.

Live example with quotes fixed and using the selector above:

var el = document.querySelector(".PrmryBtnMed.ApricotWheat");
if (el) {
  el.click();
}

function ApricotWheat(element) {
  alert(element.innerHTML);
}

<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="PrmryBtnMed ApricotWheat" id="VERYLONGTEXT" onclick="ApricotWheat(this); return false;"><span>Dispatch to this address</span></a>

Answer 2

There can be no spaces in a class name ... there are two different classes in the element ... use ".PrmryBtnMed.ApricotWheat"