How to add/update an attribute to an HTML element using JavaScript?

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You can read here about the behaviour of attributes in many different browsers, including IE.

element.setAttribute() should do the trick, even in IE. Did you try it? If it doesn’t work, then maybe
element.attributeName="value" might work.

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