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micmath on 02/11/08

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Get the actual style property value of an element

Published in: JavaScript

URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/getstyles.html

Gets the style property as rendered, not as defined (which can be different).

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function measure(el, styleProp) {
    if (el.currentStyle)
         var st = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
    else if (window.getComputedStyle)
 
    var st = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
    return st;
}

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