Comments on: getAttribute(’style’), setAttribute(’style’) & IE Don’t Mix http://www.patmullin.com/weblog/2006/04/06/getattributestyle-setattributestyle-ie-dont-mix/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:53:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sam http://www.patmullin.com/weblog/2006/04/06/getattributestyle-setattributestyle-ie-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-1701 sam Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:57:39 +0000 http://www.patmullin.com/weblog/?p=48#comment-1701 Thanks. Was worried that there was no easy work around. Thanks. Was worried that there was no easy work around.

]]> By: Tyler Waters http://www.patmullin.com/weblog/2006/04/06/getattributestyle-setattributestyle-ie-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Tyler Waters Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:24:00 +0000 http://www.patmullin.com/weblog/?p=48#comment-975 IE can suck my nuts. I ran into this bug (amung like 3 or 4 other non-compliancy issues) while writing a cross-browser XML/XSLT processor. You may want to try this: object.style.cssText = styleText; where - object = document.getElementById(’[id_of_element]') - styleText = "height:250px;" Works in both IE, Mozilla & Opera -- I've been unable to test other browsers. I have a sneaking suspicion that cssText is one of those evil proprietary properties like innerHTML that spreads like terminal cancer accross much of the web... As such, every time I want to set the style of a dom element, I call a function: function setStyle( object, styleText ) { object.style.cssText += styleText; } which can eventually be rewritten in the bright & brilliant future of FULL W3C compliancy for ALL browsers (dreaming), or modified to include further cross-browser support. IE can suck my nuts. I ran into this bug (amung like 3 or 4 other non-compliancy issues) while writing a cross-browser XML/XSLT processor.

You may want to try this:
object.style.cssText = styleText;

where
– object = document.getElementById(’[id_of_element]‘)
– styleText = “height:250px;”

Works in both IE, Mozilla & Opera
— I’ve been unable to test other browsers.

I have a sneaking suspicion that cssText is one of those evil proprietary properties like innerHTML that spreads like terminal cancer accross much of the web… As such, every time I want to set the style of a dom element, I call a function:

function setStyle( object, styleText ) {
object.style.cssText += styleText;
}

which can eventually be rewritten in the bright & brilliant future of FULL W3C compliancy for ALL browsers (dreaming), or modified to include further cross-browser support.

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