Questions tagged [setattribute]

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When to use setAttribute vs .attribute= in JavaScript?

Has a best-practice around using setAttribute instead of the dot (.) attribute notation been developed? E.g.: myObj.setAttribute("className", "nameOfClass"); myObj.setAttribute("id", "someID"); or myObj.className = "nameOfClass"; myObj.id =…
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JavaScript Adding an ID attribute to another created Element

I have some code here that will do the following. The code creates an element "p" then I append it to a "div" in the HTML. I would like that "p" I just created have an unique identifier (ID) and set the name of the ID. So later on when the user…
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Difference between setattr and object manipulation in python/django

I have the following model: class Ticket(models.Model): title = models.CharField() merged_to = models.ForeignKey("self", related_name='merger_ticket', null=True, blank=True) looser_ticket = models.BooleanField(default=False) There are…
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How to Set OnClick attribute with value containing function in ie8?

My goal is to change the onclick attribute of a link. I can do it successfully, but the resulting link doesn't work in ie8. It does work in ff3. For example, this works in Firefox 3, but not IE8. Why?

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Angularjs dynamically set attribute

I'm trying to dynamically add attribute to div in controller in angular js. var table = document.getElementById("div_id").setAttribute("ng-click", "function_name()"); $scope.$apply(); Everything looks fine, in the debugger i see that attribute…
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Using request.setAttribute in a JSP page

Is it possible to use request.setAttribute on a JSP page and then on HTML Submit get the same request attribute in the Servlet?
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Correctly adding defer attribute to script tag with pure JavaScript

I am trying to add a deferred script tag like this: const script = document.createElement('script'); script.setAttribute('src', '/script.js'); script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript'); script.setAttribute('defer', true);//this is the…
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How to use JavaScript's setattribute to affect multiple elements?

I have many div with the class publish_0 that I would like to change to publish_1 on click of a button. Right now I use this but it only change one item. How to I apply the setattribute to all item that have the…
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Javascript: setAttribute() v.s. element.attribute = value to set "name" attribute

So I'm learning to manipulate the DOM and I noticed one interesting thing: Let's say I want to set the name attribute of an element by using the "." dot notation: element.name = "someName"; console.log(document.getElementsByName("someName")[0]); //…
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Simpler way to set attributes with svg?

I'm new to SVG, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance. I created a fiddle, just playing around with things. http://jsfiddle.net/a46p8/ var svg = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg',…
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How to remove attributes from the NSAttributedString swift?

I have added some attributes to my buttons attributedTitle let attr = NSMutableAttributedString(string: currTitle) attr.addAttribute(NSStrikethroughStyleAttributeName, value: 2, range: NSMakeRange(0, attr.length)) …
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javascript setAttribute style

I don't get how the two following javascript/css codes can produces different result: 1st: prev.setAttribute('style', 'position:absolute;left:-70px;opacity:0.4;border-radius: 150px;-webkit-border-radius: 150px;-moz-border-radius: 150px;'); 2nd: …
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JS - Cannot read property 'setAttribute' of null

I am pretty new to javascript and want to code a header of an html site. JS: when the window width is smaller than 1215px --> left part goes 100% width; right part of the header to 0 I always get the "Cannot read property 'setAttribute' of null "…
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setAttribute and video.src for changing video tag source not working in IE9

I have literally read every stackoverflow thread regarding changing the video tag source dynamically via javascript in IE9, including the useful but not agreed upon posts here and here, but do feel like there is another solution. Here is the very…
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To use getAttribute(), or not to use getAttribute(): that is the question

Possible Duplicate: JavaScript setAttribute vs .attribute= javascript dom, how to handle "special properties" as versus attributes? Many times, in forums or places such as Usenet I have been told by some (when criticizing my code) that instead of…
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