Dojo Dijit and HTML5 in Real world applications/Dijit/dijit.byId

dijit.byId
dijit.byId("id") works almost like document.getElementById("id"). However,it only works on declared dijit elements. See also dojo.byId

Tips and tricks
dijit.byId would not work on HTML elements not specified as an dijit element:

Verified in
IE 8, Firefox 3.6.22, Dojo 1.6.1