- From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:46:59 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
According to the DOM 2 CSS specs, the ViewCSS class (which inherits
from DOM2Views::AbstractView) has an instance method
"getComputedStyle()". [1] I'm writing a function [2] in JS to get the
current style of an element in a cross-browser manner. It works for
IEWin and Mozilla, but not Safari (v1.2). Some questions:
* From the DOM 2 CSS specs, I see that the DOM2Views::DocumentView
class has a defaultView property which points to an AbstractView
instance. Mozilla uses document.defaultView to refer to the ViewCSS
instance for getComputedStyle(), but in Safari 'document.defaultView'
is a function that returns an AbstractView instance. Is Safari
definitely wrong in this case?
* What is the second parameter ('pseudoElt') in getComputedStyle for?
(The documentation for it [3] is really vague, saying only that it's a
DOMString and describing it as "The pseudo-element or null if none.")
* Using document.defaultView().getComputedStyle(myEl,null) always
returns null in Safari, even for elements with explicit styling on them
[4]. Does anyone know if Safari is simply broken in this regards, or if
there's a way to get the computed style for an element?
Thanks in advance for any answers you can help me out with.
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[1] http://phrogz.net/ObjJob/object.asp?id=250
[2] http://phrogz.net/JS/CurrentStyle_js.txt
[3]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Style-20001113/css.html#CSS-
CSSview-getComputedStyle
[4] http://phrogz.net/tmp/currentstyle.html
Received on Tuesday, 25 May 2004 17:47:32 UTC