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    Introduction
    Ch. 1. Essential JavaScript
    Ch. 2. The JavaScript Language: Data, Operators, and Branching
    Ch. 3. The JavaScript Language: Loops, Functions, and Errors
    Ch. 4. Handling the Browser Environment
    Ch. 5. Using Core HTML Properties
    Ch. 6. Using Core HTML Methods and Events
    JavaScript’s Core HTML Methods
    Using JavaScript’s Core HTML Events
    JavaScript’s Core HTML Methods
    The addBehavior Method
    The addEventListener Method
    The appendChild Method
    The applyElement Method
    The attachEvent Method
    The blur Method
    The clearAttributes Method
    The click Method
    The cloneNode Method
    The componentFromPoint Method
    The contains Method
    The detachEvent Method
    The dispatchEvent Method
    The dragDrop Method
    The fireEvent Method
    The focus Method
    The getAdjacentText Method
    The getAttribute Method
    The getAttributeNode Method
    The getBoundingClientRect Method
    The getClientRects Method
    The getElementsByTagName Method
    The getExpression Method
    The hasChildNodes Method
    The insertAdjacentElement Method
    The insertAdjacentHTML and insertAdjacentText Methods
    The insertBefore Method
    The item Method
    The mergeAttributes Method
    The normalize Method
    The releaseCapture Method
    The removeAttribute Method
    The removeAttributeNode Method
    The removeBehavior Method
    The removeChild Method
    The removeEventListener Method
    The removeExpression Method
    The removeNode Method
    The replaceAdjacentText Method
    The replaceChild Method
    The replaceNode Method
    The scrollIntoView Method
    The setActive Method
    The setAttribute Method
    The setAttributeNode Method
    The setCapture Method
    The setExpression Method
    The swapNode Method
    The tags Method
    The urns Method
    JavaScript’s Core HTML Events
    The onactivate, onbeforedeactivate, and ondeactivate Events
    The onbeforecopy Event
    The onbeforecut Event
    The onbeforeeditfocus Event
    The onbeforepaste Event
    The onblur Event
    The onclick Event
    The oncontextmenu Event
    The oncontrolselect Event
    The oncopy Event
    The oncut Event
    The ondblclick Event
    The ondrag, ondragend, ondragenter, ondragleave, ondragover, ondragstart, and ondrop Events
    The onfilterchange Event
    The onfocus Event
    The onfocusin and onfocusout Events
    The onhelp Event
    The onkeydown, onkeypress, and onkeyup Events
    The onlosecapture Event
    The onmousedown, onmouseenter, onmouseleave, onmousemove, onmouseout, onmouseover, onmouseup, and onmousewheel Events
    The onmove, onmoveend, and onmovestart Events
    The onpaste Event
    The onpropertychange Event
    The onreadystatechange Event
    The onresize, onresizeend, and onresizestart Events
    The onselectstart Event
    The ontimeerror Event
    Ch. 7. Using window and frame Properties
    Ch. 8. Using window and frame Methods and Events
    Ch. 9. Using the document and body Objects
    Ch. 10. Using the navigator, location, and history Objects
    Ch. 11. Working with HTML Text Elements
    Ch. 12. Working with Forms, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons
    Ch. 13. Working with Text and Select Controls
    Ch. 14. Working with Links, Lists, and Tables
    Ch. 15. Working with the Mouse, Keyboard, and Images
    Ch. 16. Dynamic HTML: Changing Web Pages On-the-Fly
    Ch. 17. Dynamic HTML: Drag and Drop, Data Binding, and Behaviors
    Ch. 18. The Date, Time, and String Objects
    Ch. 19. The Math, Number, Boolean, and Array Objects
    Ch. 20. The RegExp Object: Working with Regular Expressions
    Ch. 21. Cascading Style Sheets and CGI Programming
    Ch. 22. XML and XSLT
    Ch. 23. Cookies and Creating Your Own Objects
    Ch. 24. .NET and Security
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    The setAttribute Method

    The setAttribute method sets the value of a specified attribute. You invoke this method on an element, passing it the name of an attribute, a new value for the attribute, and an optional case argument, which, if true, makes the browser search for the attribute in a case-sensitive way. You can see the support for this method in Table 6.48.

    Table 6.48. The setAttribute Method
    Method NS2 NS3 NS4 NS6 IE3a IE3b IE4 IE5 IE5.5 IE6
    setAttribute(attribute, value [, case])          
         x   x x x x
      No return value



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