Document.all tutorial
last modified last modified April 30, 2025
In this article we show how to use the all property to select all HTML
elements in JavaScript.
Document.all
The all property of the Document object returns an
HTMLAllCollection, representing all the elements within the
document. It provides access to the entire contents of the page as a read-only
collection. While this property can be useful for querying document nodes, it is
considered outdated and should be used with caution, as modern best practices
recommend other DOM methods like querySelector or
getElementById for element selection.
In our example we are going to traverse the returned HTMLAllCollection
with Ramda library. See Ramda tutorial for more information.
Document.all example
The following example demonstrates the usage of the document's all property.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This is simple web document.
</p>
<script>
let allTags = document.all;
let nOfTags = R.length(R.keys(allTags));
console.log(`There are ${nOfTags} tags in the document`);
console.log('List of tags:');
R.forEachObjIndexed((value, key) => {
console.log(`${key}: ${value.localName}`);
}, allTags);
</script>
</body>
</html>
In the document, we display the number of the elements and their list.
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.25.0/ramda.min.js"></script>
We include the Ramda library.
let allTags = document.all;
The get all tags with document.all.
let nOfTags = R.length(R.keys(allTags));
console.log(`There are ${nOfTags} tags in the document`);
We compute the number of tags and show the message to the console.
R.forEachObjIndexed((value, key) => {
console.log(`${key}: ${value.localName}`);
}, allTags);
With Ramda's forEachObjIndexed we go through the collection
and output all tag names.
Source
In this article we have worked with the document's all property.