script not working in IE 6

[J Weaver]

Hi

I'm very new to web scripting. Can someone tell me why this snippet
will work as expected in Mozilla 1.4 but not IE 6.0? I thought this
script should work in any browser compatible with W3C DOM. Any help is
greatly appreciated.

<script>

function turnRed(){
var elem=document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
elem.item(1).setAttribute("style","color:red");
}

</script>

<DIV ID="div1">Div #1</DIV>
<DIV ID="div2">Div #2</DIV>
<DIV ID="div3">Div #3</DIV>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Turn #2 Red" onclick="turnRed()">

[Janwillem Borleffs]

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I'm very new to web scripting. Can someone tell me why this snippet
will work as expected in Mozilla 1.4 but not IE 6.0? I thought this
script should work in any browser compatible with W3C DOM. Any help is
greatly appreciated.

IE is not fully compliant. The following will work in both IE and Mozilla:

function turnRed(){
var elem=document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
elem.item(0).style.color = "red";
}
JW

[David Dorward]

J Weaver wrote:

I'm very new to web scripting. Can someone tell me why this snippet
will work as expected in Mozilla 1.4 but not IE 6.0? I thought this
script should work in any browser compatible with W3C DOM. elem.item(1).setAttribute("style","color:red");

MSIE doesn't support setAttribute.

I won't swear to it, but I think setAttribute is DOM2, and MSIE only
supports DOM1.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[Svend Ezaki Tofte (DIKU)]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David Dorward wrote:

MSIE doesn't support setAttribute.

MSIE "supports" it. But it's just so bug ridden it might as well not have.
The difference between no support, and crappy support, is that the latter
is much more dangerous.

Regards,
Svend