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CSS styles doesn\'t work on dynamically created elements in IE

Blog/JavaScript · 2010-12-28 · createelement div element document createelement div element document createelement var element document

Again, IE proves that is full with bugs. Simple but effective solution.

If you have the following code:

var element = document.createElement("div");
element.setAttribute("class", "yourClassName");

change it to:

var element = document.createElement("div");
element.className = "yourClassName";

.className property also works in FF, Opera and Safari.