setAttribute problem

[orion_rus]

Hello, setAttribute nicely work in Mozilla, but when i try to attach event in IE, it tells error, how i can make it works in both browsers?

[dcrombie]

I use something like the following - it seems to be cross-browser compatible. Other sites use the MSIE code by default and ignore get/setProperty.

if(node.currentStyle) { 
 // applies to msie only 
 node.style.property = newValue; 
 } else { 
 node.style.setProperty("property", newValue, ""); 
 }

Edit: OK, you wanted setAttribute instead of setProperty. The solution should be similar...

[Bernard Marx]

setAttribute doesn't work in IE for setting event handlers.
Use:

elementRef.onclick = functionRef

or use the newer methods:

elementRef.attachEvent(..) // IE
elementRef.addEventListener(..) // Standards