Hi, I think it may be to do with 'border' being shorthand for all the individual border properties. If you code this $('#byClass').append($('#byClass').css('border-top-width')); then it shows the width as '1px'.
hth Paul On May 1, 9:39 pm, Panman01 <rpann...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing to note, I've found that this only seems to work in Opera. > > On May 1, 1:56 pm, Panman01 <rpann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have not been able to figure this out. If I missed some kind of RTFM > > or something obvious please let me know. I can take it ;) Thanks > > > On Apr 30, 10:22 pm, Panman01 <rpann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I just want to note that Google Groups wrapped a couple lines of the > > > code. The DOCTYPE and jquery script will need to be fixed if you copy > > > the code to test it. > > > > On Apr 30, 10:17 pm, Panman <rpann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > For some reason I cannot get jQuery.css('name') to return a style > > > > property that was assigned by a class. However, it returns the > > > > property if it was assigned by style="". Has anyone else run into this > > > > issue? Bug? Here is my test code: > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > > > > TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > > > > <html><head> > > > > <title>CSS Test</title> > > > > <style type="text/css"> > > > > .apply-border { > > > > border: 1px solid blue;} > > > > > </style> > > > > <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/ > > > > jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> > > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > > > $(document).ready(function() { > > > > $('#byStyle').append($('#byStyle').css('border')); > > > > $('#byClass').append($('#byClass').css('border'));}); > > > > > </script> > > > > </head><body> > > > > <p id="byStyle" style="border: 1px solid green;">Border applied by > > > > style = </p> > > > > <p id="byClass" class="apply-border">Border applied by class = </p> > > > > </body></html>