Dynamically loading css stylesheet doesn't work on IE

Question

Hi,

I dynamically load a css stylesheet (with a little help from jQuery) like this:

var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
$(document.createElement('link'))
    .attr({ type: 'text/css', href: '../../mz/mz.css', rel: 'stylesheet' })
    .appendTo(head);

This works fine in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not in IE.

Any help? Thanks

Answer 1

Once IE has processed all the styles loaded with the page, the only reliable way to add another stylesheet is with document.createStyleSheet(url)

See the MSDN article on createStyleSheet for a few more details.

url = 'style.css';
if (document.createStyleSheet)
{
    document.createStyleSheet(url);
}
else
{
    $('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' + url + '" />').appendTo('head'); 
}