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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:38:10 +0100
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Subject: 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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