[jQuery] getting the (computed) background-color

[Fil]

To retrieve the computed bgcolor of an element I had to do this:

var bgcolor = jQuery(this).css('backgroundColor');
if (bgcolor == 'transparent') {
        jQuery(this)
        .parents()
        .each(function(){
                var bg = jQuery(this).css('backgroundColor');
                if (bg != 'transparent'
                && bgcolor == 'transparent')
                        bgcolor = bg;
        });
}


I hated it: is there not already a plugin doing this (and probably
doing it better)?

-- Fil