Is there a reason to not use a shorthand for document.getElementById?

Question

I wrote something that uses document.getElementById a lot so I was wondering if instead I should just make a function like:

function gid (id) {
return document.getElementById(id);
}

and then just call it like:

alert(gid("test").innerText);

Answer 1

No, there's no reason not to. Typically most people use jQuery for stuff like this though.