how to get all the calculated styles of an element with jQuery?

Question

I want to copy all the calculated css of an element and apply it to another element. By calculated style, I mean for examply if the element's width is 100%, but it's parent's width is 200px, the elements calculated width would be 200px. how can I access all of these styles for an element ?

Answer 1

after further research using Majid's answer, I found out that Jquery's ".css" method return computed style as well, and is better because it accounts for browser difference http://api.jquery.com/css/