jQuery How to Get Element's Margin and Padding?

Question

Just wondering - how using jQuery - I can get an elements formatted total padding and margin etc ? i.e. 30px 30px 30px 30px or 30px 5px 15px 30px etc

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Answer 1

This works for me:

var tP = $("img").css("padding").split(" ");
var Padding = {
    Top: tP[0] != null ? parseInt(tP[0]) : 0,
    Right: tP[1] != null ? parseInt(tP[1]) : (tP[0] != null ? parseInt(tP[0]) : 0),
    Bottom: tP[2] != null ? parseInt(tP[2]) : (tP[0] != null ? parseInt(tP[0]) : 0),
    Left: tP[3] != null ? parseInt(tP[3]) : (tP[1] != null ? parseInt(tP[1]) : (tP[0] != null ? parseInt(tP[0]) : 0))
};

Result example:

Object {Top: 5, Right: 8, Bottom: 5, Left: 8}

To make a total:

var TotalPadding = Padding.Top + Padding.Right + Padding.Bottom + Padding.Left;

Answer 2

I've a snippet that shows, how to get the spacings of elements with jQuery:

/* messing vertical spaces of block level elements with jQuery in pixels */

console.clear();

var jObj = $('selector');

for(var i = 0, l = jObj.length; i < l; i++) {
  //jObj.eq(i).css('display', 'block');
  console.log('jQuery object:', jObj.eq(i));
  console.log('plain element:', jObj[i]);

  console.log('without spacings                - jObj.eq(i).height():         ', jObj.eq(i).height());
  console.log('with padding                    - jObj[i].clientHeight:        ', jObj[i].clientHeight);
  console.log('with padding and border         - jObj.eq(i).outerHeight():    ', jObj.eq(i).outerHeight());
  console.log('with padding, border and margin - jObj.eq(i).outerHeight(true):', jObj.eq(i).outerHeight(true));
  console.log('total vertical spacing:                                        ', jObj.eq(i).outerHeight(true) - jObj.eq(i).height());
}