- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:23:55 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 12/10/2012 14:21, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > On 11/10/2012 13:05, Gautam Sathe wrote: > [...] >> <div id="testDiv">...</div> >> >> In a script section he was trying to set its display property to 'none' >> and he had coded it like: >> >> testDiv.style.display = 'none'; > [...] > > I seem to remember this was something IE did first, and other browsers > have adopted the behavior for compatibility reasons. It may actually now > be standardised somewhere in HTML5/Living Standard. And I'm told it may have issues in browsers like older versions of Firefox when the page is not in quirks mode...so worth testing. Personally, I'd still use getElementById purely for clarity. It's not like those few bytes will make a whole lot of impact on code size, IMHO. P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com | http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ ______________________________________________________________ twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke ______________________________________________________________
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