Comments on: Use JavaScript to change “float” style

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:04:24 +0000

So that makes him plain stupid.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:39:15 +0000

Thanks a lot.. very help ful to me..

By: Eino

Eino — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:44:22 +0000

float is a reserved word in about every programming language, so it’s not silly.

By: Boss Hawk

Boss Hawk — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:36:24 +0000

Here is a little workaround for this problem:

obj.setAttribute(“style”, obj.getAttribute(“style”) + “; float:left; “);

The leading semicolon must be set because the IE sometimes changes the styles and always misses out the last semicolon.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:52:29 +0000

Thanks man, very helpful! Much appreciated

By: Me

Me — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Bless you for posting this! I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my float code worked in FF but not IE!! And styleFloat works like a dream.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:09:58 +0000

Ohh thx!
i figured that it needed something in front, since float really is a datatype, so using it in obj.style.float would be impossible.

By: erwinke

erwinke — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:41:13 +0000

Under IE6 you must use this:

obj.style.styleFloat=’left’;