How to condense multiple "document.getElementById" into one statement?

[PicnicTutorials]

<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('collapse').innerHTML = 'Collapse all';
document.getElementById('expand').innerHTML = 'Expand all';
document.getElementById('bar').innerHTML = '|';
</script>

Thanks

[chris.upjohn]

With what you're doing above you can't as there would be no way to set the HTML for each individual element if they would grouped together.

[felgall]

The best you could do to shorten this code would be to create a function so that you can remove the common part of each statement.

set = function (id, txt) {document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = txt;}
set('collapse','Collapse all');
set('expand','Expand all');
set('bar', '|');

[PicnicTutorials]

Thanks Felgall. Is one way faster than the other? Negligible I know. It's wins on code length.

document.getElementById('collapse').innerHTML = 'Collapseall';document.getElementById('expand').innerHTML = 'Expandall';document.getElementById('bar').innerHTML = '|';

set = function (id, txt) {document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = txt;}set('collapse','Collapseall');set('expand','Expandall');set('bar', '|');