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HTMLStyleElement

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.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The HTMLStyleElement interface represents a <style> element. It inherits properties and methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

This interface doesn't allow to manipulate the CSS it contains (in most case). To manipulate CSS, see Using dynamic styling information for an overview of the objects used to manipulate specified CSS properties using the DOM.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLStyleElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLStyleElement.blocking

A string indicating that certain operations should be blocked on the fetching of critical subresources. It reflects the blocking attribute of the <style> element.

HTMLStyleElement.media

A string reflecting the HTML attribute representing the intended destination medium for style information.

HTMLStyleElement.type Deprecated

A string reflecting the HTML attribute representing the type of style being applied by this statement.

HTMLStyleElement.disabled

A boolean value indicating whether or not the associated stylesheet is disabled.

HTMLStyleElement.sheet Read only

Returns the CSSStyleSheet object associated with the given element, or null if there is none.

Instance methods

No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Specifications

Specification
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# htmlstyleelement>

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
HTMLStyleElement 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
blocking 105 105 No 91 18.2 105 No 72 18.2 20.0 105 18.2
disabled 1 13 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
media 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
sheet 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1
type 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

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