Are style properties held in an array?

[Nairb]

Just learning here, so maybe I'm way off, but...
I was originally under the impression that css style properties could
be accessed/ listed since they exsisted as an array somewhere.

Is this just flat out wrong?

To illustrate - I guess I thought something like this could be used to
list available/ or set properties, or in this example the first
property. Is this just a fantasy? Or how does this work, at this level
or for document objects even?

//assuming <div id="menu"></div> exisists and hs styles applied....

document.write(document.getElementById('menu').sty le[0]);

//of course this is wrong...

[Martin Honnen]

Nairb wrote:

Just learning here, so maybe I'm way off, but...
I was originally under the impression that css style properties could
be accessed/ listed since they exsisted as an array somewhere.

Is this just flat out wrong?

To illustrate - I guess I thought something like this could be used to
list available/ or set properties, or in this example the first
property. Is this just a fantasy? Or how does this work, at this level
or for document objects even?

//assuming <div id="menu"></div> exisists and hs styles applied....

document.write(document.getElementById('menu').sty le[0]);

DOM Level 2 style defines the style object property to have its own
property named length and to have an item method which in the ECMAScript
binding can be called by using square bracket indexing.
Netscape 6+ and Opera 7 implement it this way, however IE5/6 don't
provide the length property nor the item method.
Anway, in your example (<div id="menu"></div>) there is no inline style
thus the length property would be zero.

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Martin Honnen
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