It seems that to access the CSS style element, different browser has different expectation on the name of the attribute name, one is the "style", which is supported by many a browser such as IE and chrome, and the other is "cssText"? whichi I am not sure who is using that .
to provide a cross-browser compatiblity , here is the code that shows you how to do the css style access by object detection .
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript"> var STYLE_NAME = (function () { var div = document.createElement("div"); div.style.color = "red"; if (div.getAttribute("style")) { return "style"; } if (div.getAttribute("cssText")) return "cssText"; })(); alert("the attribute name is " + STYLE_NAME); // Later on: window.onload = function () { alert("this is a simple test"); test2.setAttribute(STYLE_NAME, document.getElementById(STYLE_NAME)); // the code given below is used in my referenced book, however, it does not work. // document.getElementById("test2").getAttribute(STYLE_NAME) = document.getElementById("test").getAttribute(STYLE_NAME); }; </script> </head> <body> <div id="test" style="color:Red;"></div> <div id="test2"></div> </body> </html>
In the above example, it tries to sett a div with id "test2" with the value from another div named "test". and it does this by two stesp
1. the feature detection, it detect which name is supported, and then store it as a varaible.
2. then it used the value stored to determine which to use.