How to get margin value of a div in plain JavaScript?

Question

I can get height in jQuery with

$(item).outerHeight(true);

but how do I with JS?

I can get the height of the li with

Answer 1

I found something very useful on this site when I was searching for an answer on this question. You can check it out at http://www.codingforums.com/javascript-programming/230503-how-get-margin-left-value.html. The part that helped me was the following:

/***
 * get live runtime value of an element's css style
 *   http://robertnyman.com/2006/04/24/get-the-rendered-style-of-an-element
 *     note: "styleName" is in CSS form (i.e. 'font-size', not 'fontSize').
 ***/
var getStyle = function(e, styleName) {
  var styleValue = "";
  if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) {
    styleValue = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(e, "").getPropertyValue(styleName);
  } else if (e.currentStyle) {
    styleName = styleName.replace(/\-(\w)/g, function(strMatch, p1) {
      return p1.toUpperCase();
    });
    styleValue = e.currentStyle[styleName];
  }
  return styleValue;
}
////////////////////////////////////
var e = document.getElementById('yourElement');
var marLeft = getStyle(e, 'margin-left');
console.log(marLeft);    // 10px

#yourElement {
  margin-left: 10px;
}