Topic: changing css classes

Hullo.

I am developing in IE, no access to FF or Opera right now, and I am in a bit of a
"have to get that right - now" cause the assignment is over on Friday (and it's 6pm).

This works in IE, however, I think "className" was an IE attribute only, but cannot google
any decent referenc about the topic :

<script type="text/javascript">
            // ** Pages <div>isions handler script
            var divs = null;
            var links = null;
            
            function init(){
                links = document.getElementById("menu").getElementsByTagName("a");
                var tempDivs = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
                for(i = 0; i<tempDivs.length; i++){
                    if(tempDivs[i].className == "serverBlock"){
                        alert(i);
                    }
                }
            }
            
            window.onload = init;
        </script>

I'm pretty sure that className is a standard DOM element. It should work in any DOM complient browser.

If you could give us a link, we could check it out in other browsers

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It works a threat in IE, main browser in the company, and I can now test the snippet in my Ubuntu at home with fake content - seems alright too.
(just a bunch of links in a div with correct class names, and the same amount of divs to be displayed-block or displayed-none.. "hover" effect).

The aim of the question was : design for scalability, in case they switch to this or that OS/browser in the future.
A high probability of dom compliance is, therefore, enough for me, thanks a bunch.

If anybody is interested, the script itself is not under NDA, so I could post the final version. ...enough comps for today though.

className is part of the DOM, every browser more recent than nn4 supports it

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This may sounds silly, but does changing your for loop to the following help any?

for(i = 0; i<tempDivs.length; i++){
    var currentDiv = tempDivs[i];
    if(currentDiv.className == "serverBlock"){
        alert(i);
    }
}

Cheers,

As far as finding reference docs in the future, a good place to start is msdn, where the pages include a "Standards Information" section near the bottom.

e.g.
CLASS/className is in the W3C DOM Level 1
altLeft Property is an IE only feature

That's one way to find this stuff. There are many.

(Edited by jdauie on 12-08-2007 10:15)