setAttribute("style", 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.setAttribute("style", "position:absolute;left:"+x+";top:"+y);
mybody.appendChild(newdiv);

Using Firefox's DOM inspector, I only saw "position:absolute"
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.setAttribute("style", "position:absolute;left:"+x+";top:"+y);

setAttribute is buggy, access the properties directly:

newdiv.style.position = 'absolute';
newdiv.style.left = x + 'px';
newdiv.style.top = y + 'px';

Or:

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

top and left require a unit.

mybody.appendChild(newdiv);

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

Probably so. Hence the name setAttribute and not setAttributes.