Duplicating an element (and its style) with JavaScript

Question

For a JavaScript library I\'m implementing, I need to clone an element which has exactly the same applied style than the original one. Although I\'ve gained

Answer 1

After looking at a couple of good solutions across the WEB, I decided to combine all the best aspects of each and come up with this.

I left my solution in plain super fast Javascript, so that everybody can translate to their latest and great JS flavour of the month.

Representing the vanilla from manilla.....

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 * @problem: Sometimes .cloneNode(true) doesn't copy the styles and your are left
 * with everything copied but no styling applied to the clonedNode (it looks plain / ugly). Solution:
 * 
 * @solution: call synchronizeCssStyles to copy styles from source (src) element to
 * destination (dest) element.
 * 
 * @author: Luigi D'Amico (www.8bitplatoon.com)
 * 
 */
function synchronizeCssStyles(src, destination, recursively) {

    // if recursively = true, then we assume the src dom structure and destination dom structure are identical (ie: cloneNode was used)

    // window.getComputedStyle vs document.defaultView.getComputedStyle 
    // @TBD: also check for compatibility on IE/Edge 
    destination.style.cssText = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(src, "").cssText;

    if (recursively) {
        var vSrcElements = src.getElementsByTagName("*");
        var vDstElements = destination.getElementsByTagName("*");

        for (var i = vSrcElements.length; i--;) {
            var vSrcElement = vSrcElements[i];
            var vDstElement = vDstElements[i];
//          console.log(i + " >> " + vSrcElement + " :: " + vDstElement);
            vDstElement.style.cssText = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(vSrcElement, "").cssText;
        }
    }
}