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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:55:38 +0100
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> 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?

Yes.

(This would actually be funny for me if it was not so disappointing.)


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