I would like to get the value of the class attribute for an element using JavaScript. However in this particular situation I don't have the luxury of library such as YUI, jQuery, etc. and need to stick to the basics.
Specifically, I am looping over a table and want to check the class of the cell.
I tried:
var colClass = el.getAttribute('class');
and
var colClass = el.class;
But neither seems to be working. In the above example, el
is set from cells array of a table, such as var el = document.getElementById('myTable').rows[y].cells[y];
This line that you posted should work:
Could you post what error you get in the browser? Make sure that el is not null.
If you won't get that one to work, the attribute of the object is className, not class:
Maybe you should try this
Remember:
If you get an error and className does not work this can be due to your element being a jQuery object.
In the picture above you see that I canot use className on a jQuery object
className
?Element.className