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CSSMediaRule

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The CSSMediaRule interface represents a single CSS @media rule.

CSSRule CSSGroupingRule CSSConditionRule CSSMediaRule

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its ancestors CSSConditionRule, CSSGroupingRule, and CSSRule.

CSSMediaRule.media Read only

Returns a MediaList representing the intended destination medium for style information.

Instance methods

No specific methods; inherits methods from its ancestors CSSConditionRule, CSSGroupingRule, and CSSRule.

Examples

The CSS below includes a media query with one style rule. As this rule lives in the last stylesheet added to the document, it will be the first CSSRule returned by the last stylesheet in the document (document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1].cssRules). myRules[0] returns a CSSMediaRule object, from which we can get the mediaText.

<p id="log"></p>
@media (width >= 500px) {
  body {
    color: blue;
  }
}
const log = document.getElementById("log");
const myRules = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length - 1].cssRules;
const mediaList = myRules[0]; // a CSSMediaRule representing the media query.
log.textContent += ` ${mediaList.media.mediaText}`;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
CSSMediaRule 1 12
1Before Firefox 20, conditionText could not be set.
≤12.1 3 18
4Before Firefox for Android 20, conditionText could not be set.
≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
media 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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