Say, you want to create an element using javascript with code like
<div class="myClass" onClick="myFunction()">inner HTML</div>Now, the way to do it in firefox is by simply using javascript
setAttribute like this:
<script language="javaScript">
element = document.createElement("div");
element.appendChild(document.createTextNode("inner HTML"));
element.setAttribute("class", myClass");
element.setAttribute("onClick", "myFunction()");
</script>
But on Internet Explorer, that code won't work. It's broken. The
class part should be written className on IE, so instead of >element.setAttribute("class", myClass"); it should be >element.setAttribute("className", myClass");, and what if you have many element attributes that you don't know whether they're applied the same way on IE and firefox ? like >style, id, name, on{Change, MouseOver, etc} ?
So far, here's the quick solution to do it, it's only a
try catch block actually :
>
<script language="javaScript">
try {
element = document.createElement("<div class=\"myClass\" onclick=\"myFunction()\">");
element.appendChild(document.createTextNode("inner HTML"));
} catch (e) {
element = document.createElement("div");
element.appendChild(document.createTextNode("inner HTML"));
element.setAttribute("class", myClass");
element.setAttribute("onClick", "myFunction()");
}
</script>
Quite quick, eh ?