CSSStyleDeclaration - Web APIs | MDN

Attributes

CSSStyleDeclaration.cssText

Textual representation of the declaration block, if and only if it is exposed via HTMLElement.style. Setting this attribute changes the inline style. If you want a text representation of a computed declaration block, you can get it with JSON.stringify().

CSSStyleDeclaration.length Read only

The number of properties. See the item() method below.

CSSStyleDeclaration.parentRule Read only

The containing CSSRule.

CSS Properties

CSSStyleDeclaration.cssFloat Deprecated

Special alias for the float CSS property.

CSSStyleDeclaration named properties

Dashed and camel-cased attributes for all supported CSS properties.

Instance methods

CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyPriority()

Returns the optional priority, "important".

CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyValue()

Returns the property value given a property name.

CSSStyleDeclaration.item()

Returns a CSS property name by its index, or the empty string if the index is out-of-bounds.

CSSStyleDeclaration.removeProperty()

Removes a property from the CSS declaration block.

CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty()

Modifies an existing CSS property or creates a new CSS property in the declaration block.

CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyCSSValue() Deprecated

Only supported via getComputedStyle in Firefox. Returns the property value as a CSSPrimitiveValue or null for shorthand properties.

Example

js

const styleObj = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style;
console.log(styleObj.cssText);

for (let i = styleObj.length; i--; ) {
  const nameString = styleObj[i];
  styleObj.removeProperty(nameString);
}

console.log(styleObj.cssText);

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# the-cssstyledeclaration-interface

Browser compatibility

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