Get a CSS value from external style sheet with Javascript/jQuery

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Published on 2010-04-25T09:47:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 10:03 UTC
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Is it possible to get a value from the external CSS of a page if the element that the style refers to has not been generated yet? (the element is to be generated dynamically).

The jQuery method I've seen is $('element').css('property','value');, but this relies on element being on the page. Is there a way of finding out what the property is set to within the CSS rather than the computed style of an element?

Will I have to do something ugly like add a hidden copy of the element to my page so that I can access its style attributes?

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