var r = new XMLHttpRequest();
r.open("POST", "path/to/api", true);
r.onreadystatechange = function () {
  if (r.readyState != 4 || r.status != 200) return;
  alert("Success: " + r.responseText);
};
r.send("banana=yellow");
            

document.getElementById('test-table');
document.getElementsByTagName("span");