Supervillin posted:

Modifying the DOM again should trigger it, some libraries (I think scriptaculous?) create, append, and remove a text node containing only spaces. I did a little searching and found that adding and removing a class, or even just reassigning a class works.

code:

// this should do it
element.className = element.className;


// if not, this should do it
element.className += "forcedomredraw";
element.className = element.className.replace(/forcedomredraw/, '');


// if not, try this?
var redraw = function(element) {
    var t = document.createTextNode(' ');
    element.appendChild(t);
    setTimeout(function() {
        n.parentNode.removeChild(n);
    }, 0);
};
// changeDomStuff();
redraw(document.getElementById('whatever'));

// if not, kill everyone at Microsoft.