detecting true border, padding and margin from Javascript

Question

Is there a way to detect the true border, padding and margin of elements from Javascript code? If you look at the following code:

Answer 1

With jQuery:

var $elm = $('.box');
var hPadding = $elm.outerWidth() - $elm.width();
var vPadding = $elm.outerHeight() - $elm.height();
var hBorder = $elm.outerWidth() - $elm.innerWidth();
var vBorder = $elm.outerHeight() - $elm.innerHeight();

console.log("Horizontal padding & border: ", hPadding);
console.log("Vertical padding & border: ", vPadding);
console.log("Horizontal border: ", hBorder);
console.log("Vertical border: ", vBorder);

.box{ 
  width: 50%;
  padding:10vw; 
  border:10px solid red; 
}

Your way (but you have to state paddingLeft, paddingRight..not just 'padding' ):

var elm = $('.box');
console.log("padding left (PX): ", elm.css("paddingLeft"));

.box { 
  padding:0 50px 0 5vw; 
  border: 2px solid green; 
  width: 300px; 
  height: 300px; 
  margin-left: 4px;
}

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