JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<div id="test">1</div>
<div id="foo">2</div>
<div id="bar12">3</div>
<div id="foobar">4</div>

CSS

table {
    border: 1px solid black;
}

JavaScript

var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div'),
    forEach = Array.prototype.forEach,
    regex = /^foo.*$/;

forEach.call(divs, function (d) {
    if (d.id !== undefined && regex.test(d.id)) {
        d.parentNode.removeChild(d);
    }
});