Attribution control does not allow external element to be used

[openlayers]

It would be nice if the Attribution control would allow an external div to be used, like the mouseposition control currently does.

For the short term in my personal code, I've created a wrapper class to implement it:

OpenLayers.Control.CAttribution = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Control.Attribution, {
  element: null,
  
  draw: function() {
    OpenLayers.Control.Attribution.prototype.draw.apply(this, arguments);
    if(this.element) this.div.style.display = "none";
  },
  
  updateAttribution: function() {
    OpenLayers.Control.Attribution.prototype.updateAttribution.apply(this, arguments);
    if(this.element) this.element.innerHTML = this.div.innerHTML;
  },
  CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Control.CAttribution"
});

[crschmidt]

The Scale, Permalink and MousePosition controls all do this in a different way from the rest of the code. The way to do this is to pass in a 'div' object in the options of the control:

map.addControl(
  new OpenLayers.Control.Attribution(
    {'div': OpenLayers.Util.getElement('foo')}
  )
);