[webkit-dev] getComputedStyle() and the content property

[Johan Olsson]

OK, thnx!

If anyone is interested, I looped all the properties from
getComputedStyle() and put them here: http://johanolsson.net/blog/?p=18

B R,

Johan Olsson 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rowe [mailto:mrowe at apple.com] 
Sent: den 6 februari 2009 12:21
To: Johan Olsson
Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] getComputedStyle() and the content property


On 2009-02-06, at 03:16, Johan Olsson wrote:

> Hello everyone. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I  
> have a question about the getComputedStyle() in Webkit.
>
> In Safari 3.2.1 Win, I have not been able to extract the "content:"  
> CSS property, both with and without providing a pseudo-element for  
> getComputedStyle() (It works fine in Firefox and Opera). I noticed  
> that the method has a bunch of properties correspond to  CSS props;  
> I made a listing of them and didn't find "content"... so, I take it  
> that there is no way of getting it through getComputedStyle()?
>
> Since "content:" is a CSS 2.1 property and supported in CSS by  
> Webkit, I wonder if anyone knows of any rationale that it's not  
> accessible through Javascript?

It is an unintentional omission.
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23668 
 > was filed about this recently.

- Mark