Javascript - modify CSS on HTML tag?

Question

The HTML tag on this page I\'m working on is in a class that is giving it a top padding of 28px. I need this to go away temporarily when a button is cl

Answer 1

There's no reason to use getElementsByTagName and whatnot...just use document.documentElement. Also, it's better to use a class and toggle that instead of directly setting the style attribute. What if you change the 28px to 20px in your CSS? Then you have to change it somewhere else. Since you are sure you want the top-padding to be 0, then add a class that sets that. When done, remove that class. Like this:

document.documentElement.className += " no-top-padding";

And to "add" the padding back (by effectively removing the class):

var old_class = document.documentElement.className;
document.documentElement.className = old_class.replace(/(?:^|\s)no-top-padding(?!\S)/g, "");

Although it could be done a lot cleaner with the DOM API classList. The regex is just a safer way for making sure the className property is modified correctly to remove the "no-top-padding" class.