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HTML

<div id="div1" class="classToCheck">Div1</div>

JavaScript

var hasClass = function (el, searchClass) {
    return el.className.test(new RegExp('(\\s|^)' + searchClass + '(\\s|$)'));
};
    
alert(    hasClass(   document.getElementById('div1'), 'classToCheck'   )    )