I would like to get the value of the class attribute for an element using JavaScript. However in this particular situation I don't have the luxury of library such as YUI, jQuery, etc. and need to stick to the basics.
Specifically, I am looping over a table and want to check the class of the cell.
I tried:
var colClass = el.getAttribute('class');
and
var colClass = el.class;
But neither seems to be working. In the above example, el is set from cells array of a table, such as var el = document.getElementById('myTable').rows[y].cells[y];