Posted by Jeff on 12/19/16 12:00

David Dorward wrote:
> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>> David Dorward wrote:
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>>> Ironically, while camelCase is the usual JS style, in the case of event
>>> handlers, the DOM methods are lower case.
>> Indeed. IIRC, *all* DOM properties that have a one-to-one mapping to HTML
>> attributes are lower case.
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> Consistancy would be nice, but sadly ... *.className, meta.httpEquiv,
> body.bgColor, and so on.

I rather like it that way as those generally have dashes where the camel
is.

border-width -> borderWidth
background-color ->backgroundColor

It would be hard to program elsewise.

Jeff
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