I wonder why this doesn't work, either it's a but or a flaw in the documentation:
consider this code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> h1 { background-color: #FF00FF; color: white; border: 1px solid red; } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="../jquery.latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ var mycss = $('h1').css('border'); alert("hi : " + mycss ); }); </script> </head> <body> <h1>hello world</h1> </body> </html> ... mycss returns undefined instead of '1px solid red' Unless there is a good reason that i'm unaware of, this seems like a bug to me, no ? Thanks Alexandre