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

This is fine for JS

sel.style.display='none';
sel.offsetHeight; // no need to store this anywhere, the reference is enough
sel.style.display='block';

But in Jquery, and particularly when you can only use $(document).ready and cannot bind to a the .load event of an object for any particular reason, the following will work.

You need to get the OUTER(MOST) container of the objects/divs and then remove all its contents into a variable, then re-add it. It will make ALL changes done within the outer container visible.

$(document).ready(function(){
    applyStyling(object);
    var node = $("div#body div.centerContainer form div.centerHorizontal").parent().parent();
    var content = node.html();
    node.html("");
    node.html(content);
}