IE: Element.setAttribute not working 1

[iturner]

I'm working on a application that needs to use the DOM to dynamically edit attributes for elements. But for some reason Internet Explorer doesn't recognize the command setAttribute(attribute, value)

document.getElementById("mapimage").innerHTML = data[map][5];
var usemap = "#" + data[map][0];
document.getElementById("trans").setAttribute("usemap", usemap);

On the first line I'm populating the imagemap with the data I got from the server. Line 2 makes the imagemap reference and line 3 should set the new imagemap. But on testing the attribute stays the same.

Anyway to get around this in IE? It works great in Firefox.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Welcome to the world of IE and it's non-standard calls ;-)

You should add a third parameter, which will do nothing in compliant browsers, but it will tell IE to ignore any case issues:

setAttribute('usemap', usemap, 0);

Read here for more:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...thor/dhtml/reference/methods/setattribute.asp

Hope this helps,
Dan

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