That kind of code would be in css.js or lib.js:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/branches/firebug1.4/content/firebug/css.js

jjb

On Feb 2, 10:22 am, mark_is_new <[email protected]> wrote:
> Disclaimer: I have not gone through the source code myself.  I'm
> relatively new to JavaScript and curious about some of Firebug's
> capabilities.
>
> What technique is Firebug using to calculate the cascaded,
> programmatically-derivded CSS values for a particular element?  We are
> writing a function to traverse upward in the DOM tree until we find
> the particular CSS attribute we're looking for (and we have defaults
> set on the html element).
>
> It seems that Firebug is doing something much more efficient than this
> to achieve its performance; we can see the wait time for some of the
> calculations on our page depending on how many levels we're moving
> up.  We recursively call the node.parentNode until we find the
> attribute we're looking for, and return it to the calling function.
>
> Is there a direct method of getting these values?
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