Accessing a class with JavaScript.

[AntonioMainenti]

<span class="a" onClick="doStuff(this.style);">Asdf.</span>

The 'doStuff()' function doesn't work, because unless I say what the style is in the span tag, it claims not to know anything about it. So I'm thinking there has to be some way to get to the class of the span with JavaScript.

Thanks, Alan.

[khalidali63]

this.className

will get you the class name

cheers

Khalid

[AntonioMainenti]

So if I wanted to get the 'top' property of the class, I would type...?

[Vladdy]

Style attributes do not get populated when you assign class to an element. You can use currentStyle in IE or computedStyle in Gecko browsers, but a better way to access the values is from the styles collection.

[khalidali63]

for that you should be able to do something like this

document.getElementById("id").style.property