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With Internet Explorer, Javascript setAttribute(‘style’, ‘something’) doesn’t work in IE

If you try and set the style attribute of a DOM element with Javascript, the following code WON’T WORK IN IE:

yourelement.setAttribute('style','left:150px; top:150px;');

Instead use:

yourelement.style.cssText = 'left:150px; top:150px;';

Thanks to Rob on this page

2 thoughts on “With Internet Explorer, Javascript setAttribute(‘style’, ‘something’) doesn’t work in IE”

tme says:

May 25, 2009 at 5:45 am

Sure it won’t work since its Attribute, not Attirbute. 🙂
admin says:

June 17, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Nice catch! I fixed the street jive spelling ‘Attirbute’ to ‘Attribute’.