setAttribute("s tyle", foo) err, Multiple CSS attr's

[awebguynow]

OK, I'm on the bandwagon, to mimic Google Suggest
At this point I'm just trying to place my div in the right x, y spot.

newdiv.setAttri bute("style", "position:absol ute;left:"+x+"; top:"+y);
mybody.appendCh ild(newdiv);

Using Firefox's DOM inspector, I only saw "position:absol ute"
Does a multi-attribute CSS specification, have to be set another way ?

[Randy Webb]

awebguynow said the following on 5/16/2006 10:58 PM:

OK, I'm on the bandwagon, to mimic Google Suggest
At this point I'm just trying to place my div in the right x, y spot.

newdiv.setAttri bute("style", "position:absol ute;left:"+x+"; top:"+y);
setAttribute is buggy, access the properties directly:

newdiv.style.po sition = 'absolute';
newdiv.style.le ft = x + 'px';
newdiv.style.to p = y + 'px';

Or:

with (newdiv.style){
position = 'absolute';
left = x + 'px';
top = y + 'px'
}

top and left require a unit.
mybody.appendCh ild(newdiv);

Using Firefox's DOM inspector, I only saw "position:absol ute"
Does a multi-attribute CSS specification, have to be set another way ?

Probably so. Hence the name setAttribute and not setAttributes.

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