How do you read CSS rule values with JavaScript?

Question

I would like to return a string with all of the contents of a CSS rule, like the format you\'d see in an inline style. I\'d like to be able to do this without knowing what i

Answer 1

This version will go through all of the stylesheets on a page. For my needs, the styles were usually in the 2nd to last of the 20+ stylesheets, so I check them backwards.

    var getStyle = function(className){
        var x, sheets,classes;
        for( sheets=document.styleSheets.length-1; sheets>=0; sheets-- ){
            classes = document.styleSheets[sheets].rules || document.styleSheets[sheets].cssRules;
            for(x=0;x