Access DOM elements with Angular2's ViewChild and ViewChildren. I know it's not the preferred way, but sometimes handy.
Add a #label to the element in html.
Access that in the component by setting queries in the component decorator.
Then after the view is initialised we can get the nativeElement.
ViewChildren gives us a QueryList. The children aren't accessed directly through that, but we can filter/map/foreach that to get to the elements.