I just tried this with 1.6 and can report the following:
* It works if you define the style inline (in the div's style tag).
* It works if you set the attribute using Prototype Element.setStyle
* It works for any simple attribute that does not have a composite-
shortcut form, like width, no matter where in the CSS hierarchy that
value was defined.
* For anything that has a composite form, like margin (versus margin-
left) the only way to get this to work is to set the property inline
or by JavaScript (which I believe does the same thing as inline
internally). (But this is not universally true for all attributes --
see below.)
If you want to get the border property en toto, then you'll have to do
the long-hand or JavaScript assignment. But if you want to reference a
border-left-width in your code that is set outside of the style
attribute on the tag itself, you will probably have to write your CSS
in completely long-hand format:
#foo {
border-left-width: 2px;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-color: #ccc;
}
I just discovered something else that's fairly alarming -- I defined
margin-left: auto; on a div in the page head style tag, then asked for
$('thatDiv').getStyle('margin-left') and got back 0px as the value.
Doesn't matter where I define it, inline is no different. Firefox
3.latest with Firebug.latest.
Walter
On Dec 23, 2010, at 11:53 AM, marbrun wrote:
I have simplified all other code, so there nothing else influencing
it. I have even tested this in another project using Prototype version
1.6. No result.
How can I solve this quite important problem?
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