[thelist] CSS from within Javascript

James Spahr james at designframe.com
Fri Aug 4 11:37:33 CDT 2000


on 8/4/00 12:13 PM, Ed Nolan at ed at nolans.net wrote:

> Anybody know how to write a JavaScript line that includes a call to CSS?
> 
> I'm quickly finding that calls to CSS from within JavaScript tags are
> ineffective.
> For example, the JavaScript command below:
> 
> document.write("<span" + " " + "id=&quot;date&quot;>");
> 
> Should, supposedly, write a CSS tag:
> 
> <span id="date">

 document.write("<span" + " " + "id=\"date\">");
 document.write("<span id=\"date\">");  // why not do this?

escape the quotes, don't encode them. Or:

 document.write('<span" + ' ' + 'id="date">');

James.






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