CSS Styling in Javascript for IE?

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Hi,

A always, these damn browsers don't play ball I have the following code that will change the background color of a link (flashing);

window.onload = function ()
{
	the_array = getElementsByClassName(document,'flashingtext');
	for (i = 0; i < the_array.length; i++) {
		setInterval('flashtext(' + i + ')', 500 );
	}
} 


function flashtext(the_element) {

	if (the_array[the_element].style.backgroundColor != start_color)   {
		the_array[the_element].style.backgroundColor = start_color;
	} else {
		the_array[the_element].style.backgroundColor = end_color;
	}
}

"the_array" is an array of all the elements that match my "class" I'm looking out for.

This works 100% perfectly in FF, Chrome and Safari... but not IE as always! I'm guessing its got to do with the way I'm trying to change the CSS:

the_array[the_element].style.backgroundColor = end_color;

...so maybe this isn't valid in IE:

.style.backgroundColor = end_color;

Can anyone suggest to me what I can do? I would imagine I need to add an extra conditional to check if its IE we are using, and then update it a slightly different way if thats the case.

TIA!

Andy