Working With the new CSS Typed Object Model

Eric Bidelman introduces the CSS Typed Object Model. It looks like it's going to make dealing with getting and setting style values through JavaScript easier and less error-prone. Less stringy, more number-y when appropriate.

Like if we wanted to know the padding of an element, classically we'd do:

var el = document.querySelector("#thing");
var style = window.getComputedStyle(el);
console.log(style.padding);

And we'd get "20px" as a string or whatever it is.

One of these new API's lets us pull it off like this:…

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