After few hours of banging the head against wall, i manage to find this solution and was really helpful. Thanks a bunch.

Kuppusamy

This is just one of the dozens of attributes you CANT set in IE.

See here for complete details.
http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/08/bug-242-setattribute-doesnt-always-work.html

There’s actually a lot of good info on this site. I highly recommend an extensive read.

ex:
var pass = document.getElementById(’txtPassword’); pass.getAttribute(”onfocus”).value = “javascript:blabla()”;

Tested and worked on FF, IE7, IE6, IE5.5 ….

var isOpera, isIE = false;
if(typeof(window.opera) != ‘undefined’){isOpera = true;}
if(!isOpera && navigator.userAgent.indexOf(’Internet Explorer’)){isIE = true);

function createNamedElement(type, name, checked){
var element = document.createElement(type);
if(name){
element.setAttribute(’name’, name);
}
if(checked){
element.setAttribute(’checked’, ‘checked’);
}
return element;
}

//fix IE
if(isIE){
function createNamedElement(type, name, checked){
var elemStr = ”;
return document.createElement(elemStr);
}
}

With this, the function is redefined if IE, to handle its broken DOM.

You can not set an onclick on an element in IE as an attribute. This is because IE does not see it as an attribute, but as an object. Try e.g.:
eval(”elem.onclick=’myScript()’”)

I posted the solution I found on my web development blog here:
http://matts411.com/webdev/cre…..javascript

Let me know what you guys think.

Matt