How can I force WebKit to redraw/repaint to propagate style changes?

Question

I have some trivial JavaScript to effect a style change:

sel = document.getElementById(\'my_id\');
sel.className = sel.className.replace(/item-[1-9]-selected         


        

Answer 1

danorton solution didn't work for me. I had some really weird problems where webkit wouldn't draw some elements at all; where text in inputs wasn't updated until onblur; and changing className would not result in a redraw.

My solution, I accidentally discovered, was to add a empty style element to the body, after the script.

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That fixed it. How weird is that? Hope this is helpful for someone.