JS isn’t my strongpoint but as I understand it col1 returns a collection of all the List elements inside your page. To access an individual element you would need to set the appropriate value.
e.g. col1[0].className = “inactivetab”;
If you have a variable previously defined for this purpose (perhaps ulitem0_0) then you would need to use that instead but without the quotes.
col1[ulitem0_0].className = “inactivetab”;
Unless you have other css issues I will move the thread to the js forum for a better answer.