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 like your answer Quickredfox. I needed to copy some CSS but not immediately so I modified it to make the "toNode" optional.

$.fn.copyCSS = function( style, toNode ){
  var self = $(this),
   styleObj = {},
   has_toNode = typeof toNode != 'undefined' ? true: false;
 if( !$.isArray( style ) ) {
  style=style.split(' ');
 }
  $.each( style, function( i, name ){ 
  if(has_toNode) {
   toNode.css( name, self.css(name) );
  } else {
   styleObj[name] = self.css(name);
  }  
 });
  return ( has_toNode ? self : styleObj );
}

If you call it like this:

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

Then it will return an object with your CSS declarations for you to use later:

{
 'width': '140px',
 'height': '860px',
 'color': 'rgb(238, 238, 238)'
}

Thanks for the starting point.