Andre Lewis on Tech

IE and Firefox have different ways of doing this, and neither one is what you would expect.

In IE, it's myDiv.style.styleFloat="left";

In Firefox, it's myDiv.style.cssFloat="left";

Here's a full code block, with primitive browser detection included. This will work in both IE and Firefox:

if (document.all) {   // very basic browser detection
  var sFloat="styleFloat"; //ie
} else {
  var sFloat="cssFloat"; //firefox
}
var oMyDiv=document.getElementById("myId");oMyDiv.style[sFloat]="left";