<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var objBody = document.getElementsByTagName('BODY').item(0);
var remAttr = objBody.removeAttribute('bgcolor'); 
-->
</SCRIPT>

You can see that the background color is still yellow in Internet Explorer 5.5 and lower, but is white in Netscape 6. The reason being that the BGCOLOR attribute has been removed by the removeAttribute() method.

This deficiency in Internet Explorer 5.x does not apply to all element type and attribute combinations. Internet Explorer can remove attributes from other elements, such as the P tag. The first P element on this tip includes the ad at the top of the page. Its only attribute is ALIGN="center". If the browser is able to remove this attribute, we should see the ad changing position from centered to letf-justified. In both Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer 4 and up, you can see that the ad is left-justified. View the source of this page by clicking the View/Page Source menu entries. Notice that the ALIGN="center" attribute is still there. It has been removed when the page loaded, by the following JavaScript script:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var objP = document.getElementsByTagName('P').item(0);
var removeAttr = objP.removeAttribute('align'); 
-->
</SCRIPT>

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