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CSSStyleDeclaration: cssFloat property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The cssFloat property of the CSSStyleDeclaration interface returns the result of invoking CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyValue() with float as an argument.

When setting, it invokes CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty() with float as the first argument, and the given value as the second argument. The given value must be a valid value for the float property.

Value

A string.

When set to the null value, that null value is converted to the empty string (""), so csd.cssFloat = null is equivalent to csd.cssFloat = "".

Example

In the below example, the stylesheet contains a single rule for .box, which has the float property with a value of left. This value will be returned by cssFloat. We then set the value to "right" using cssFloat, and return the new value.

.box {
  float: left;
  inline-size: 300px;
}
let myRules = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules;
let rule = myRules[0];
console.log(rule.style.cssFloat); // "left"
rule.style.cssFloat = "right";
console.log(rule.style.cssFloat); // "right"

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
cssFloat 1 12 1–17 ≤12.1 1 18 4–17 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleDeclaration/cssFloat