Using Javascript to change the text alignment of a DIV tag

[tom]

Hi there,
In IE, I am trying to govern various style attributes of a DIV tag with
javascript.

It's no problem doing things like this: 'window.xxx.style.top="100px";'
but when I try to change the text alignment with the following:

'window.xxx.style.text-align="left";'

.... I get a syntax error probably due to the hyphen.

Does anyone have any ideas about this? Other style attributes can be
changed but not text alignment. I would be very grateful for some help.

Thanks ....

Tom

[Ivo]

<to*@loopy.co.uk> wrote

It's no problem doing things like this: 'window.xxx.style.top="100px";'
but when I try to change the text alignment with the following:

'window.xxx.style.text-align="left";'

... I get a syntax error probably due to the hyphen.

That 's right. To avoid the hyphen, you write combinations of words in
camelcase, with the first letter of the next word capitalized:

window.xxx.style.textAlign="left";
window.xxx.style.fontSize="110%";
etc.

--
hth
ivo
http://4umi.com/web/javascript/camelcase.htm

[tom]

Brilliant ... thanks for your help