getElementByClass().setAttribute doesn’t work

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It’s getElementsByClassName, not getElementByClass; details here. Note that IE does not support this function (yet).

getElementsByClassName returns a NodeList of matching elements (rather than a single element), so:

var list, index;
list = document.getElementsByClassName("home1");
for (index = 0; index < list.length; ++index) {
    list[index].setAttribute(/* ... */);
}

For this sort of thing, you may want to use a library like jQuery, Prototype, Google Closure, etc., to pave over the various browser differences for you. They can save you a lot of time and trouble compared with dealing with those differences yourself.

For instance, in jQuery:

$(".home1").attr(/* ... */);

…applies that attribute (via jQuery#attr) to every element with the class “home1”. Although in your particular case, you’d probably want jQuery#css instead.

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