This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The CSSStyleDeclaration.parentRule read-only property returns a CSSRule that is the parent of this style block, e.g., a CSSStyleRule representing the style for a CSS selector.
The CSS rule that contains this declaration block or null if this CSSStyleDeclaration is not attached to a CSSRule.
The following JavaScript code gets the parent CSS style rule from a CSSStyleDeclaration:
const declaration = document.styleSheets[0].rules[0].style; const rule = declaration.parentRule;
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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 | |
parentRule |
1 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleDeclaration/parentRule