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CSSMediaRule: media property

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 read-only media property of the CSSMediaRule interface returns a MediaList representing the intended destination medium for style information.

Value

a MediaList

Examples

The CSS includes a media query with one style rule. This will be the first CSSRule returned by document.styleSheets[0].cssRules. Calling myRules[0].media therefore returns a MediaList object representing the media query.

@media (width >= 500px) {
  body {
    color: blue;
  }
}
let myRules = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules;
console.log(myRules[0].media); // a MediaList

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
media 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSMediaRule/media