Getting all the style properties using JQuery. Basically I want an equivalent of getComputedStyle() and I dont want to handle cross-browser stuff

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I would like to get the currentStyle/computedStyle object and I dont want to manually check for the type of browser. (I wanted to get rid of cross-browser handling that is why I came to Jquery). Actually I want the style object returning all the style-property: value map. Please help.

Do you need all the styles, or just a select few? The approach would be very different depending on this. — Nick Craver, Jun 15 '10 at 12:08
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2558426/getcomputedstyle-or-cssmap-to-get-every-style-declaration and http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/getstyles.html, wrap the cross-browser code `getStyle` function in a jquery plugin or custom selector to isolate it from your code. — Anurag, Jun 15 '10 at 12:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

Well, there is a soultion for a similiar problem offered by Keith Bentrup: jQuery CSS plugin that returns computed style of element to pseudo clone that element?

He used a list of attributes from Firebug and created a computed style object with jQuery to be able to clone styles from one object to another:

jQuery.fn.css2 = jQuery.fn.css;
jQuery.fn.css = function() {
    if (arguments.length) return jQuery.fn.css2.apply(this, arguments);
    var attr = ['font-family','font-size','font-weight','font-style','color',
        'text-transform','text-decoration','letter-spacing','word-spacing',
        'line-height','text-align','vertical-align','direction','background-color',
        'background-image','background-repeat','background-position',
        'background-attachment','opacity','width','height','top','right','bottom',
        'left','margin-top','margin-right','margin-bottom','margin-left',
        'padding-top','padding-right','padding-bottom','padding-left',
        'border-top-width','border-right-width','border-bottom-width',
        'border-left-width','border-top-color','border-right-color',
        'border-bottom-color','border-left-color','border-top-style',
        'border-right-style','border-bottom-style','border-left-style','position',
        'display','visibility','z-index','overflow-x','overflow-y','white-space',
        'clip','float','clear','cursor','list-style-image','list-style-position',
        'list-style-type','marker-offset'];
    var len = attr.length, obj = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) 
        obj[attr[i]] = jQuery.fn.css2.call(this, attr[i]);
    return obj;
}

This seems to do exactly what you are looking for.

There are also a couple of plugins for that:

Even though this is accepted but I feel it would be better if we had something like a cloneStyle function that would copy styles from one element to other. — Sharad, Jun 16 '10 at 06:37

Getting all the style properties using JQuery. Basically I want an equivalent of getComputedStyle() and I dont want to handle cross-browser stuff

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