[thelist] Workaround for setAttribute bug in IE7?

[Stephen Rider]

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Edwin Martin wrote:

> Have you tried newCell.colSpan=8?
>
> (I wonder why people use setAttribute so much, while the HTML-DOM has
> all these ready-to-use properties).

Because it's easier to remember one rule than a thousand little rules.

Of course, thanks to IE we can't just do that.

Steve