John and Asrail, thanks for your help!  A point in the right direction
is more than good enough to get me going.  I appreciate it.

On Feb 2, 12:47 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote:
> That kind of code would be in css.js or 
> lib.js:http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/branches/firebug1.4/conte...
>
> 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?- Hide quoted text -
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