Topic awaiting preservation: backgroundColor, borderColor, and color Please Stand Up! (Page 1 of 1)

It's been a while since my last posting (...I was in the Asylum dungeons...)

I'm recursing through the DOM and I want to get the backgroundColor, borderColor, and color attributes of each element.
Getting these values using the style property seems to only work if the style has already been set.
I want to get the values regardless of how and if it's been explicitly set or not.
Is there a way of doing this? better yet, a cross browser way?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

It's been a while since I've dealt with this sort of thing, but here's what I remember: In addition to the style property (which contains data about the style applied specifically to the element), every DOM element also has something like a currentStyle property, which contains the style which is currently applied to that element. However, this property has a different name in the official DOM than in IE's implementation, and I wouldn't be surprised if it behaves a lot differently, so you're in for some browser-specific coding.

The DOM specification for retrieving information about a document's style is at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Style-20001113/ . Good luck. =)


 

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Thanks Slime!