Setattribute not working in IE?

[kvijayhari]

Hi

i have a dom code and its working nicely and also in mozilla1.7, firefox but not in IE.

When i asked this in a forum they told that setattribute property wont work in IE but they have no solution.

What should i do to have this work in IE??

the code

var tx1 = document.createElement("input");
	var tt = document.createTextNode("Enter No. of users:");
	tx1.setAttribute("name","usersno");
	tx1.setAttribute("type","text");
	tx1.setAttribute("maxlength","3");
	tx1.setAttribute("size","12");

[Kravvitz]

There's a bug in IE regarding setting the name attribute on elements created with document.createElement(). These describe the solution:
Death to bad DOM Implementations (Anthony Lieuallen's version of the function)
Setting the "name" attribute in Internet Explorer

[kvijayhari]

hi

That's really helped me and

i tried the following and worked great!!!!!

try {
    var tx1 = document.createElement( '<input name="usersno" MAXLENGTH = 3 onKeyUp = chgdate()>' );
}
catch( e ){
    var tx1 = document.createElement("input");
    tx1.setAttribute("name","usersno");
}
var tt = document.createTextNode("Enter No. of users:");
tx1.setAttribute("type","text");
tx1.setAttribute("maxlength","3");
tx1.setAttribute("size","12");
tx1.setAttribute("onKeyUp","chgdate()");

and the javascript function is called on the key up event also..

and i'm using same kind of my old code in another page where more 3 or 4 properties are to be set.. that is not working in IE because of the same old damn problem.

for example i have more properties to be set as

var tx1 = document.createElement("input");
tx1.setAttribute("name","rate"+localval);
tx1.setAttribute("type","text");
tx1.setAttribute("id",localval);
tx1.setAttribute("readonly",true);
tx1.setAttribute("class","rjust");
tx1.setAttribute("value","0.00");
tx1.setAttribute("size","8");

I think i can use the same method as creating the elements with the name , property etc...
but it's not seems to be good to add all properties as a single property for the createelement() function.

i wish to know is there any other method and any other property specific to IE ,especially in the case of events(such as adding a function call on specific event as onclick="callfunction()" ) and all others..

Please help me to code better and to make my script in all browsers

[Kravvitz]

I very rarely use setAttribute(). I prefer the DOM0 syntax.

These properties are case-sensitive. These should be the correct cases.

tx1.type = "text";
tx1.maxLength = "3";
tx1.size = "12";
tx1.onkeyup = chgdate;