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jslearner
jslearner

Reputation: 22221

Changing element style attribute dynamically using JavaScript

I hav a certain style sheet for a div. Now i want to modify one attribute of div dynamically using js.

How can i do it?

document.getElementById("xyz").style.padding-top = "10px";

Is this correct?

Upvotes: 177

Views: 348899

Answers (11)

KooiInc
KooiInc

Reputation: 122986

In addition to other answers, if you want to use the dash notition for style properties, you can also use:

document.getElementById("xyz").style["padding-top"] = "10px";

[edit 2023] Very old answer. For who it may concern: I created a small library to change styling dynamically @Github.

Upvotes: 281

JohnP
JohnP

Reputation: 50029

Assuming you have HTML like this:

<div id='thediv'></div>

If you want to modify the style attribute of this div, you'd use

document.getElementById('thediv').style[ATTRIBUTE] = '[VALUE]'

Replace [ATTRIBUTE] with the style attribute you want. Remember to remove '-' and make the following letter uppercase.

Examples

document.getElementById('thediv').style.display = 'none'; //changes the display
document.getElementById('thediv').style.paddingLeft = 'none'; //removes padding

Upvotes: 19

Drummer
Drummer

Reputation: 1

I change css style in Javascript function.

But Uncaught TypeError: bild is null .

If I run it in a normal html file it work.

CODE:

  var text = document.getElementById("text");
var bild = document.getElementById("bild");
var container = document.getElementById("container");

bild.style["background-image"] = "url('stock-bild-portrait-of-confident-senior-business-woman-standing-in-office-with-her-arms-crossed-mature-female-1156978234.jpg')";
//bild.style.background-image = "url('stock-bild-portrait-of-confident-senior-business-woman-standing-in-office-with-her-arms-crossed-mature-female-1156978234.jpg')";

 //  bild.style["background-image"] =  "url('" +  defaultpic + "')";
 alert (bild.style["background-image"]) ;
 bild.style["background-size"] = "300px";
 bild.style["background-repeat"] = "no-repeat";
 bild.style["background-position"] = "center";
 bild.style["border-radius"] = "50%";
 bild.style["background-clip"] = "border-box";
 bild.style["transition"] = "background-size 0.2s";
 bild.style["transition-timing-function"] = "cubic-bezier(.07,1.41,.82,1.41)";
 bild.style["display"] = "block";
 bild.style["width"] = "100px";
 bild.style["height"] = "100px";

 bild.style["text-decoration"] = "none";
 bild.style["cursor"] = "pointer";
 bild.style["overflow"] = "hidden";
 bild.style["text-indent"] = "100%";
 bild.style["white-space"] = "nowrap";

 container.style["position"] = "relative";
 container.style["font-family"] = "Arial";

 text.style["position"] = "center";
 text.style["bottom"] = "5px";
 text.style["left"] = "1px";
 text.style["color"] = "white";

Upvotes: -1

Rama Adaikkalam
Rama Adaikkalam

Reputation: 743

Surprised that I did not see the below query selector way solution,

document.querySelector('#xyz').style.paddingTop = "10px"

CSSStyleDeclaration solutions, an example of the accepted answer

document.getElementById('xyz').style.paddingTop = "10px";

Upvotes: 9

Hyperion
Hyperion

Reputation: 173

document.getElementById('id').style = 'left: 55%; z-index: 999; overflow: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; opacity: 0; display: none;';

works for me

Upvotes: 6

Juraj
Juraj

Reputation: 6638

There is also style.setProperty function:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleDeclaration/setProperty

document.getElementById("xyz").style.setProperty('padding-top', '10px');

// version with !important priority
document.getElementById("xyz").style.setProperty('padding-top', '10px', 'important');

Upvotes: 51

rjbultitude
rjbultitude

Reputation: 935

I would recommend using a function, which accepts the element id and an object containing the CSS properties, to handle this. This way you write multiple styles at once and use standard CSS property syntax. 

//function to handle multiple styles
function setStyle(elId, propertyObject) {
    var el = document.getElementById(elId);
    for (var property in propertyObject) {
        el.style[property] = propertyObject[property];
    }
}

setStyle('xyz', {'padding-top': '10px'});

Better still you could store the styles in a variable, which will make for much easier property management e.g. 

var xyzStyles = {'padding-top':'10px'}
setStyle('xyz', xyzStyles);

Hope that helps

Upvotes: 9

Pinkesh Badjatiya
Pinkesh Badjatiya

Reputation: 366

document.getElementById("xyz").setAttribute('style','padding-top:10px');

would also do the job.

Upvotes: 9

David Hedlund
David Hedlund

Reputation: 129832

It's almost correct.

Since the - is a javascript operator, you can't really have that in property names. If you were setting, border or something single-worded like that instead, your code would work just fine.

However, the thing you need to remember for padding-top, and for any hyphenated attribute name, is that in javascript, you remove the hyphen, and make the next letter uppercase, so in your case that'd be paddingTop.

There are some other exceptions. JavaScript has some reserved words, so you can't set float like that, for instance. Instead, in some browsers you need to use cssFloat and in others styleFloat. It is for discrepancies like this that it is recommended that you use a framework such as jQuery, that handles browser incompatibilities for you...

Upvotes: 146

chairul
chairul

Reputation: 199

I resolve similar problem with:

document.getElementById("xyz").style.padding = "10px 0 0 0";

Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 19

T.Todua
T.Todua

Reputation: 56557

document.getElementById("xyz").style.padding-top = '10px';

will be

document.getElementById("xyz").style["paddingTop"] = '10px';

Upvotes: 10

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