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CSSStyleDeclaration: cssText 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 cssText property of the CSSStyleDeclaration interface returns or sets the text of the element's inline style declaration only.

To be able to set a stylesheet rule dynamically, see Using dynamic styling information.

Not to be confused with stylesheet style-rule CSSRule.cssText.

Value

A string containing the text of the element's inline style declaration.

Example

<span id="s1" style="color: red;">Some text</span>
const elem = document.getElementById("s1");
console.log(elem.style.cssText); // "color: red;"

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
cssText 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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