20020912 Thursday September 12, 2002

New Stylesheet Switcher. I'm trying to use the DOM and Javascript to come up with a new stylesheet switcher for this site. Currently, I use Javascript to read a cookie and do a bunch of document.write's to write out the full <style type="text/css">...</style> code. However, I should be able to use the following to simply replace the <style> tag's contents. However, it doesn't work in IE5/Mac :-(. Please notify me if you know why this doesn't work.

<script type="text/javascript">
function switchStyle() {	
  var current = document.getElementsByTagName("style").item(0);
    if (current.hasChildNodes()) { // IE5/Mac returns false, Mozilla returns true
      var newStyle = 
        document.createTextNode("@import url(/skins/sunset/styles/colors-n-fonts.css);");
      current.replaceChild(newStyle, current.firstChild);
    }
}
</script>
<button type="button" onclick="switchStyle()">switch stylesheet</button>

You can try it out using the button below:

Posted in The Web at Sep 12 2002, 06:41:50 PM MDT Add a Comment

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