- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:46:07 +0200
- To: "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:07:26 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > At one point we agreed to add Element.getDefaultComputedStyle to CSSOM > to address the "what is the default (user+ua) value for this element for > a given CSS property?" use case. > > It looks like it's been removed from CSSOM at some point, but I see > nothing replacing it. Certainly none of the things on > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#getstyleutils cover this use case. Am I > just missing something? > > The lack of such an API is causing libraries like jQuery to rely on > weird display:none iframe hacks in an attempt to gather this sort of > information. And even with those hacks, if user/UA stylesheets have > media query dependent styles there's no way for them to get correct > answers. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0161.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0164.html https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/csswg/rev/3b8ded576b8a Is there interest in implementing box:none to satisfy the use case? -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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