window.onload = function () {
//Determine browser, we only need this for Internet Explorer
if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {

			
			//set object for brevity
			var replaceObj = document.getElementById('foobar'); 
	
	
					//set parent object for brevity
					parentObj = replaceObj.parentNode;
					
					//grab the html inside of the element before removing it from the DOM
					newHTML = parentObj.innerHTML;
					
					//remove element from the DOM
					parentObj.removeChild(replaceObj);
					
					//stick the element right back in, but as a new object
					parentObj.innerHTML = newHTML;
					
					}
			

}