The setAttributeNode Method

The setAttributeNode Method

The setAttributeNode method assigns an attribute node to a node. You can see the support for this method in Table 6.49.

Table 6.49. The setAttributeNode Method

Method	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
setAttributeNode( attributeNode )				x						x
	Returns: Attribute object

The setAttributeNode is the W3C analog to the setAttribute method discussed in the preceding section. To assign an attribute node to another node capable of supporting attributes, you just pass that attribute node to this method:

 elementNode.setAttributeNode(attributeNode)