Padding or margin value in pixels as integer using jQuery

Question

jQuery has height() en width() functions that returns the height or width in pixels as integer...

How can I get a padding or margin value of an element in p

Answer 1

Shamelessly adopted from Quickredfox.

jQuersy.fn.cssNum = function(){
    return parseInt(jQuery.fn.css.apply(this, arguments), 10);
};

update

Changed to parseInt(val, 10) since it is faster than parseFloat.

http://jsperf.com/number-vs-plus-vs-toint-vs-tofloat/20