When setting a number into a style property you must specify the unit in order for it to work across all browsers.
<html>
<head>
<title>Pixel Style Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function () {
// setting of numbers to properties that normal consume pixels, you have to append the unit, in this case, it is the px itself.
var check = /z-?index|font-?weight|opacity|zoom|line-?height/i;
this.pxStyle = function (elem, name, value) {
var nopx = check.test(name);
if (typeof value !== "undefined") {
if (typeof value === "number") {
// when you set the number to attribute of Style that expects some px unit, you should append "px" to the end.
value += nopx ? "" : "px";
}
elem.style[name] = value;
}
return nopx ?
elem.style[name] :
// always return the value parseFloat.
parseFloat(elem.style[name]);
};
})();
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
var elem = document.getElementById("div");
alert
pxStyle(elem, "top", 5);
// Alerts out '5'
alert(pxStyle(elem, "left"));
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="top:10px;left:5px;" id="div" ></div>
</body>
</html>