Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9

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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.


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getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-10 23:02 +1100
  Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 13:38 +0100
    Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-10 23:48 +1100
      Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 13:55 +0100
        Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-11 06:48 +1100
          Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 23:46 +0100
            Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-02-10 22:51 +0000
              Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-11 11:55 +0100
            Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-11 23:13 +1100
              Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-11 14:41 +0100
                Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-11 15:21 +0100
                Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-12 19:04 +1100
                Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-12 10:59 +0100
  Re: getComputedStyle vs currentStyle with IE 9 Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-10 05:37 -0800

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