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Subject: Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9
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On 10/02/2012 11:38 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>
>> Alas, IE 9 supports window.getComputedStyle but not camel-cased CSS
>> property names. So I tried this
>>
>> function getElStyle(el, IEcssPropName, cssPropName) {
>>     if (window.getComputedStyle) {
>>       return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el,
>> null).getPropertyValue(cssPropName) ||
>>              document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el,
>> null).getPropertyValue(IEcssPropName);
>>
>>     } else if (el.currentStyle) {
>>       return el.currentStyle[IEcssPropName];
>>     }
>>
>>     return null;
>> }
>>
>> and it seems to work. Is there a better way?
>
> Yes.

Good, could you tell what it is?

Andrew Poulos