css - JavaScript get Styles

Question

Is it possible to get ALL of the styles for an object using JavaScript? Something like:

main.css
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#myLayer {
  position: absolute;
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  color: #0000ff;
}

main.js
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var ob = document.getElementById("myLayer");
var pos = ob.(getPosition);
// Pos should equal "absolute" but
// ob.style.position would equal null
// any way to get absolute?

Answer 1

You are talking about what is known as Computed Style, check out these article on how to get it:

• Get Styles on QuirksMode
• Get Computed Style
• Get the rendered style of an element

From the last article, here is a function:

function getStyle(oElm, strCssRule){
    var strValue = "";
    if(document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle){
        strValue = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(oElm, "").getPropertyValue(strCssRule);
    }
    else if(oElm.currentStyle){
        strCssRule = strCssRule.replace(/-(w)/g, function (strMatch, p1){
            return p1.toUpperCase();
        });
        strValue = oElm.currentStyle[strCssRule];
    }
    return strValue;
}

How to use it:

CSS:

/* Element CSS*/
div#container{
    font: 2em/2.25em Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

JS:

var elementFontSize = getStyle(document.getElementById("container"), "font-size");