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if it is consistent in current versions I doubt that reporting this would help for old versions

Which version is right in the end？

Have you tried first to set the html right?

try instead of:
<table style="100px" id="a">

this:
<table style="height: 100px;" id="a">
.......

I believe the bug was with 1.3.2 and was fixed thereafter.

from the w3.org
The height of a table is given by the 'height' property for the 'table' or 'inline-table' element. A value of 'auto' means that the height is the sum of the row heights plus any cell spacing or borders. Any other value is treated as a minimum height.

So the 150px is treated as the minimum for html, jquery returns the allocated height.

I did test it using one row for instance and got back the 150.

The style is something static like any other attribute in the tag. You could use the jquery in the first place to get any attr.

var style = $('tt').attr('style');