Can jQuery get all CSS styles associated with an element?

Question

Is there a way in jQuery to get all CSS from an existing element and apply it to another without listing them all?

I know it would work if they were a style attribut

Answer 1

I had tried many different solutions. This was the only one that worked for me in that it was able to pick up on styles applied at class level and at style as directly attributed on the element. So a font set at css file level and one as a style attribute; it returned the correct font.

It is simple! (Sorry, can't find where I originally found it)

//-- html object
var element = htmlObject; //e.g document.getElementById
//-- or jquery object
var element = htmlObject[0]; //e.g $(selector)

var stylearray = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
var font = stylearray["font-family"]

Alternatively you can list all the style by cycling through the array

for (var key in stylearray) {
console.log(key + ': ' + stylearray[key];
}