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

above suggestions didnt work for me. but the below one does.

Want to change the text inside the anchor dynamically. The word "Search". Created an inner tag "font" with an id attribute. Managed the contents using javascript (below)

Search

script contents:

    var searchText = "Search";
    var editSearchText = "Edit Search";
    var currentSearchText = searchText;

    function doSearch() {
        if (currentSearchText == searchText) {
            $('#pSearch').panel('close');
            currentSearchText = editSearchText;
        } else if (currentSearchText == editSearchText) {
            $('#pSearch').panel('open');
            currentSearchText = searchText;
        }
        $('#searchtxt').text(currentSearchText);
    }