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.
A string containing the text of the element's inline style declaration.
<span id="s1" style="color: red;">Some text</span>
const elem = document.getElementById("s1");
console.log(elem.style.cssText); // "color: red;"
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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| 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