[thelist] Styling JavaScript created paragraph

[Julian Rickards]

Got it now, thanks Christian.

I must admit that I thought <p><img><p> where text-align: center is applied
to the <p> would center the image and this is what I was trying to do.
However, your technique worked perfectly.

Thanks again,

Jules

On 22/10/06, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, I think I have answered this.
>
> I looked in Firefox's DOM Inspector and a paragraph with the id of
> description does exist (it must be generated because it is not in the HTML
> code).
>
> It is still not clear to me whether or not I can use CSS to style
> generated content or whether it must be done, as you had shown, using JS.
>
> Jules
>
> On 22/10/06, Julian Rickards <julian.rickards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If the JS code is:
> >
> >   var para = document.createElement("p");
> >   para.setAttribute("id","description");
> >
> > doesn't this generate (thanks) a paragraph with the id of description
> > and should I be able to style it in the stylesheet?
> >
> > Like I said, I may have messed with something else but if I am correct
> > above, then I can search for whatever else I may have messed up.
> >
> > Jules
> >
> > On 22/10/06, Christian Heilmann <codepo8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > There is no difference between Paragraphs and generated Paragraphs.
> > > Both the set Attribute lines are invalid. If you want to do that in JS
> > > you need to set
> > > document.getElementById('description').style.textAlign='center';.
> > > However, only MSIE6 centers images with the text flow. If you want to
> > > do it in other browsers, use margin:0 auto; and display:block to
> > > center an image.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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