computedStyle

Cross-browser currentStyle/getComputedStyle implementation

Getting Started

Download one of the available flavors:

• Production version
• Development version - Available via bower install computedStyle
• CommonJS version - Available via npm install computed-style and component install twolfson/computedStyle
• AMD version

In your web page:

<script src="dist/computedStyle.min.js"></script>
<script>
computedStyle(el, 'color'); // Returns color of the element
</script>

Documentation

computedStyle is a single purpose function

computedStyle(element, property);
/**
 * Cross-browser getComputedStyle
 * @param {HTMLElement} el Element to get property from
 * @param {String} prop Property to look up (DOM, zIndex, and CSS, z-index, formats accepted)
 * @returns Property from the browser
 *
 * @note These properties can vary from browser to browser.
 * For example, IE6 will return #FF0000 whereas Firefox will return rgb(255, 0, 0)
 * I have chosen to avoid this for this repo as it exits the single purpose
 * and jQuery follows the same approach.
 */

Examples

// Grab the z-index of an element
computedStyle(el, 'z-index');

// Grab the background-color of an element
computedStyle(el, 'background-color');

Donating

Support this project and others by twolfson via gratipay.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint your code using npm run lint and test via npm test.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Todd Wolfson

Licensed under the MIT license.