Javascript / convert CSS style string into JS object

Question

We\'d like to convert a CSS style entered as string into a JS object.

E.g.,

 var input = \" border:solid 1px; color:red \";

expec

Answer 1

All the answers seem to need a lot of splitting- why not do a match and get all the pairs in one go?

function cssSplit(str){
    var O= {},
    S= str.match(/([^ :;]+)/g) || [];
    while(S.length){
        O[S.shift()]= S.shift() || '';
    }
    return O;
}