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indianocean on 06/25/07


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Reading the style of an element

 / Published in: JavaScript
 

Reading the style of an element in your document isn't as simple as it should be. Here a solution. Background information here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpt/JSDHTMLCkbk_chap5/index5.html Script from here: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/getstyles.html

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  1. function getStyle(el,styleProp)
  2. {
  3. 	var x = document.getElementById(el);
  4. 	if (x.currentStyle)
  5. 		var y = x.currentStyle[styleProp];
  6. 	else if (window.getComputedStyle)
  7. 		var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(x,null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
  8. 	return y;
  9. }

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