Get all items that start with class name

getElementsByClassName only matches on classes, not bits of classes. You can't pass a regular expression to it (well, you can, but it will be type converted to a string, which is unhelpful).

The best approach is to use multiple classes…

<div class="page page1">

i.e. This div is a page, it is also a page1.

Then you can simply document.getElementsByClassName('page').

Failing that, you can look to querySelector and a substring matching attribute selector:

document.querySelectorAll("[class^=page]")

… but that will only work if pageSomething is the first listed class name in the class attribute.

document.querySelectorAll("[class*=page]")

… but that will match class attributes which mention "page" and not just those with classes which start with "page" (i.e. it will match class="not-page".

That said, you could use the last approach and then loop over .classList to confirm if the element should match.

var potentials = document.querySelectorAll("[class*=page]");
console.log(potentials.length);
elementLoop:
  for (var i = 0; i < potentials.length; i++) {
    var potential = potentials[i];
    console.log(potential);
    classLoop:
      for (var j = 0; j < potential.classList.length; j++) {
        if (potential.classList[j].match(/^page/)) {
          console.log("yes");
          potential.style.background = "green";
          continue elementLoop;
        }
      }
    console.log("no");
    potential.style.background = "red";
  }

<div class="page">Yes</div>
<div class="notpage">No</div>
<div class="some page">Yes</div>
<div class="pageXXX">Yes</div>
<div class="page1">Yes</div>
<div class="some">Unmatched entirely</div>

Previous answers contain parts of the correct one, but none really gives it.

To do this, you need to combine two selectors in a single query, using the comma , separator.

The first part would be [class^="page"], which will find all the elements whose class attribute begins with page, this selector is thus not viable for elements with multiple classes, but this can be fixed by [class*=" page"] which will find all the elements whose class attribute have somewhere the string " page" (note the space at the beginning).

By combining both selectors, we have our classStartsWith selector:

document.querySelectorAll('[class^="page"],[class*=" page"]')
  .forEach(el => el.style.backgroundColor = "green");

<div class="page">Yes</div>
<div class="notpage">No</div>
<div class="some page">Yes</div>
<div class="pageXXX">Yes</div>
<div class="page1">Yes</div>
<div class="some">Unmatched entirely</div>