Get all css styles for a DOM element (a la Firebug)

Question

For a DOM element, how to I get all styles specified in css for a particular element? Is it a case of iterating over all css style names?

Or is there a more elegant

Answer 1

For a DOM element, how to I get all styles specified in css for a particular element? Is it a case of iterating over all css style names?

Yes, it is.

Or is there a more elegant way?

I don't know about more elegant (elegance is pretty high on the subjective scale), but it would certainly be shorter and sweeter if you made use of a library such as jQuery, here's a solution someone coded to answer another question:

How Can I Get List Of All Element CSS Attributes with jQuery?

How does Firebug do it?

I have no idea.