title: Get a CSS value from external style sheet with Javascript/jQuery
body: <p>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).</p>
  
  <p>The jQuery method I've seen is <code>$('element').css('property');</code>, but this relies on <code>element</code> 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?</p>
  
  <p>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?</p>