jQuery CSS plugin that returns computed style of element to pseudo clone that element?

Question

I\'m looking for a way using jQuery to return an object of computed styles for the 1st matched element. I could then pass this object to another call of jQuery\'s css method

Answer 1

I dont know if you're happy with the answers you got so far but I wasn't and mine may not please you either, but it may help someone else.

After pondering upon how to "clone" or "copy" elements' styles from one to another I have come to realize that it was not very optimal of an approach to loop through n and apply to n2, yet we're sorta stuck with this.

When you find yourself facing these issues, you rarely ever need to copy ALL the styles from one element to another... you usually have a specific reason to want "some" styles to apply.

Here's what I reverted to:

$.fn.copyCSS = function( style, toNode ){
  var self = $(this);
  if( !$.isArray( style ) ) style=style.split(' ');
  $.each( style, function( i, name ){ toNode.css( name, self.css(name) ) } );
  return self;
}

You can pass it a space-separated list of css attributes as the first argument and the node you want to clone them to as the second argument, like so:

$('div#copyFrom').copyCSS('width height color',$('div#copyTo'));

Whatever else seems to "misalign" after that, I'll try to fix with stylesheets as to not clutter my Js with too many misfired ideas.