Javascript - Select element by id name [duplicate]

Question

Normally I select elements with an id via document.getElementById('idName'). But apparently you can also select them by name only 'idName'. I was not aware of this until recently. I wanted to know if this is a "bad practice" to select elements by their idName? I have already used the search engine and found nothing about select by id name. So here is my question now.

 console.log(idName)

<div id="idName">Hello World</div>

Answer 1

I believe this is a bad practice because you can get yourself confused and cause conflicts with your own js variables.

Answer 2

I can't say it's Good or bad But

you should be very careful while using . This can cause many problems So I will recommend use in Small Projects only . (it's My personal recommendation )

Suppose Your JavaScript loads First then it will throw an error and none of the code will work

For more Information

just typing in 'idName' isn’t a “short form” of document.getElementById() It’s a reference to a global variable