Red Div Is A Noshow In Ie9 & Works In Ff, O, S ,c - Solved With Thanks

[niche]

This is a bout a script I'm using to learn more about javascript. I think this is the offending line that won't display in IE9. div.setAttribute("style","background-color:red;"); Does IE have a problem with setAttribute(), or is it something else? Here's what I think is the relevant part of my code:

if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) {   var div = document.createElement('div');	  div.setAttribute('id', 'link_container');	  div.setAttribute("style","background-color:red;");	  div.style.width = '300px';	  div.style.height = '100px';	 div.style.margin = '-15px 0px 0px 75px';   var txt=xmlhttp.responseText;   var strA = txt.slice(0,txt.indexOf(",")); //define number of cycles of For Loop   var str = txt.substr(txt.indexOf(",")+1);  //cut 1st position from string and save remaining info   for (i=0; i<=strA; i++){	 var newLink = document.createElement('a'); //create anchor	 var linkName = str.slice(0,str.indexOf(" ,")+1);	 var linkName = linkName.split(' ').join('');	 newLink.href = "http://localhost/" + linkName+".php";	 newLink.innerHTML = linkName;	 var str = str.substr(str.indexOf(",")+1);	 div.appendChild(newLink);	 var newBr = document.createElement('br'); //create break	 iv.appendChild(newBr);   }   document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(div);

[Ingolme]

Rather than setting the value of the attribute, try actually changing the style:

div.style.backgroundColor = "red";

[thescientist]

Not to dismiss Ingolme's valid suggestion, but does the IE error console give you any feedback?

[Ingolme]

I haven't tested to make sure, but I think that in Internet Explorer the setAttribute() function doesn't do anything but change the text content of the attribute without actually updating properties of the HTML DOM. If that is the case, Internet Explorer won't show any errors even if it's not doing anything.

[niche]

That worked Ingolme. thescientist asked about error console and there was one. I didn't think to check it> it was: SCRIPT5007: Unable to set value of the property 'innerHTML': object is null or undefined. Thanks for asking and thanks also to thescientist.