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HTMLStyleElement: media 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 HTMLStyleElement.media property specifies the intended destination medium for style information.

Value

A string describing a single medium or a comma-separated list.

Examples

Suppose the <head> contains the following:

<style id="inline-style" media="screen, print">
  p {
    color: blue;
  }
</style>

Then:

const style = document.getElementById("inline-style");

console.log(style.media); // 'screen, print'

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# dom-style-media>

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
media 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/HTMLStyleElement/media