Getting values of global stylesheet in jQuery

Question

When I use a style sheet definition like this on HTML page scope

#sideBar {
  float: left;
  width: 27.5%;
  min-width: 275;
  ... 
}

the f

Answer 1

When you need the exact value as defined in the global stylesheet you have to access the rules within the style-element.
This is not implemented in jQuery.

IE: rules-collection
Others: CSSRuleList (May be supported by IE8 or 9 too, can't tell you exactly)