computed-style

Find out what the cause is of a certain calculated CSS style

Hi all, I have a <div> on a webpage which ends up with a calculated height property of 633px. This is not set in any cascading style sheet, inline or not, nor is it set in a javascript. I have searched everywhere in my code but the number 633 does not show up anywhere. I can solve this by setting style="height: 420px;" which is the heig...

Get computed font-family in JavaScript

This is a followup to this question. I am working on a component for the CKEditor, a tweaked version of the font drop-down menus that always display the currently selected font family / size values, no matter where they were defined, using computedStyle and consorts. As you can see in the other question, determining the font size work...

Simple getComputedStyle in Prototype JS?

Is there an easy cross-browser way to get computed style of an element in PrototypeJS, without checking document.defaultView... and other properties? ...so that the code looked like var elt = $$('.xyz')[k], border = elt.getComputedStyle('border-bottom-width') PrototypeJs provides getDimensions, -Width, and -Height methods that ret...

get computed background color as rgb in IE

I am trying to get the RGB background color in IE using the following code: function getStyle(elem, name) { // J/S Pro Techniques p136 if (elem.style[name]) { return elem.style[name]; } else if (elem.currentStyle) { return elem.currentStyle[name]; } else if (document.defaultView && document.defaultVie...

Detecting width: auto in jQuery

I'm retrieving the width of elements using jQuery and would prefer it if I could have an indication of whether there was an explicit width (and height) specified. <div id="test"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { alert($('#test').css('width')); }); </script> This will alert the implicit width of the div in terms of ...