|
August 15, 2000 Expando Properties  Tips: August 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
|
|
|
The default behavior of Internet Explorer is that you can add arbitrary properties to any object on the page. These properties are called expando properties. Starting from Version 5, you can protect yourself from creating arbitrary properties. This self protection prevents you from creating new properties when you intend to set existing properties, but fail because of typos and wrong cases. For example, if you want to set the borderColor property of a style object and you type instead bordercolor, a new expando property will be created. As a consequence, the border color will not be changed according to your specifications and you will have difficult time figuring out why.
To protect you from doing such mistakes, you should set the expando property to
document.expando is false, you'll get an error message that the object does not support such property. The following two lines yield no error (myDiv is the ID of a DIV element somewhere on the page):
myDiv does not support the property myProperty:
People who read this tip also read these tips: Look for similar tips by subject:
|
Legal Notices, Licensing, Reprints, Permissions, Privacy Policy.
Advertise | Newsletters | Shopping | E-mail Offers | Freelance Jobs 
