jquery: why css('width') returns different value than width()

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Published on 2009-07-31T14:18:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 10:23 UTC
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When I run following code:

		node = $('.period')
		alert(node.width() + ' ' + node.css('width'))

i get '0 144px'. How is that possible?

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