FarmSoft Studios Scratchpad » programming http://scratchpad.farmsoftstudios.com What We're Thinking About Right Now... Tue, 03 May 2011 21:47:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Setting an HTML element’s class with Javascript http://scratchpad.farmsoftstudios.com/2009/04/graphic-design/setting-an-html-elements-class-with-javascript/ http://scratchpad.farmsoftstudios.com/2009/04/graphic-design/setting-an-html-elements-class-with-javascript/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:32:07 +0000 FarmSoft Studios http://scratchpad.farmsoftstudios.com/?p=139 I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I was getting a parse-error with this code… DUH! 
document.getElementById('test').class = "test"

“class” is a reserved name, of course… So you access it with: 

document.getElementById('test').className = "test"
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