How can I get the background color of any element, like a div
, using JavaScript? I have tried:
<html>
<body>
<div id="myDivID" style="background-color: red">shit happens</div>
<input type="button" value="click me" onclick="getColor();">
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getColor() {
myDivObj = document.getElementById("myDivID")
if (myDivObj) {
console.log('myDivObj.bgColor: ' + myDivObj.bgColor); // shows: undefined
console.log('myDivObj.backgroundcolor: ' + myDivObj.backgroundcolor); // shows: undefined
//alert ( 'myDivObj.background-color: ' + myDivObj.background-color ); // this is not a valid property :)
console.log('style:bgColor: ' + getStyle(myDivObj, 'bgColor')); //shows: undefined
console.log('style:backgroundcolor: ' + getStyle(myDivObj, 'backgroundcolor')); // shows:undefined:
console.log('style:background-color: ' + getStyle(myDivObj, 'background-color')); // shows: undefined
} else {
console.log('damn');
}
}
/* copied from `QuirksMode` - http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/getstyles.html - */
function getStyle(x, styleProp) {
if (x.currentStyle)
var y = x.currentStyle[styleProp];
else if (window.getComputedStyle)
var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(x, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
return y;
}
</script>
</html>
As with all css properties that contain hyphens, their corresponding names in JS is to remove the hyphen and make the following letter capital: backgroundColor
alert(myDiv.style.backgroundColor);
Get at number:
window.getComputedStyle( *Element* , null).getPropertyValue( *CSS* );
Example:
window.getComputedStyle( document.body ,null).getPropertyValue('background-color');
window.getComputedStyle( document.body ,null).getPropertyValue('width');
~ document.body.clientWidth
With jQuery:
jQuery('#myDivID').css("background-color");
With prototype:
$('myDivID').getStyle('backgroundColor');
With pure JS:
document.getElementById("myDivID").style.backgroundColor
It depends which style from the div you need. Is this a background style which was defined in CSS
or background style which was added through javascript(inline)
to the current node?
In case of CSS
style, you should use computed style. Like you do in getStyle()
.
With inline style you should use node.style
reference: x.style.backgroundColor
;
Also notice, that you pick the style by using camelCase/non hyphen reference, so not background-color
, but backgroundColor
;
Simple solution
myDivObj = document.getElementById("myDivID")
let myDivObjBgColor = window.getComputedStyle(myDivObj).backgroundColor;
Now the background color is stored in the new variable.
This worked for me:
var backgroundColor = window.getComputedStyle ? window.getComputedStyle(myDiv, null).getPropertyValue("background-color") : myDiv.style.backgroundColor;
And, even better:
var getStyle = function(element, property) {
return window.getComputedStyle ? window.getComputedStyle(element, null).getPropertyValue(property) : element.style[property.replace(/-([a-z])/g, function (g) { return g[1].toUpperCase(); })];
};
var backgroundColor = getStyle(myDiv, "background-color");
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