styleSheet Object

Represents a single style sheet in the document.

Members Table

Attribute	Property	Description
	canHaveHTML	Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the object can contain rich HTML markup.
	disabled	Sets or retrieves whether a style sheet is applied to the object.
	href	Sets or retrieves the URL of the linked style sheet.
ID	id	Retrieves the string identifying the object.
	isContentEditable	Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can edit the contents of the object.
	isDisabled	Retrieves the value indicating whether the user can interact with the object.
	isMultiLine	Retrieves the value indicating whether the content of the object contains one or more lines.
	owningElement	Retrieves the next object in the HTML hierarchy.
	parentStyleSheet	Retrieves the style sheet that imported the current style sheets.
	readOnly	Retrieves whether the rule or style sheet is defined on the page or is imported.
TITLE	title	Sets or retrieves the title of the style sheet.
	type	Retrieves the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language in which the style sheet is written.

Collection	Description
imports	Retrieves a collection of all the imported style sheets defined for the respective styleSheet object.
pages	Retrieves a collection of page objects, which represent @page rules in a styleSheet.
rules	Retrieves a collection of rules defined in a style sheet.

Method	Description
addImport	Adds a style sheet to the imports collection for the specified style sheet.
addPageRule	Creates a new page object for a style sheet.
addRule	Creates a new rule for a style sheet.
fireEvent	Fires a specified event on the object.
removeRule	Deletes an existing style rule for the styleSheet object, and adjusts the index of the rules collection accordingly.

Object	Description
page	Represents an @page rule within a styleSheet.

Style attribute	Style property	Description
	cssText	Sets or retrieves the persisted representation of the style rule.
MEDIA	media	Sets or retrieves the media type.
text-autospace	textAutospace	Sets or retrieves the autospacing and narrow space width adjustment of text.

Remarks

You can use this object to retrieve style sheet information, such as the URL of the source file for the style sheet and the element in the document that owns (defines) the style sheet. You also can use it to modify style sheets.

You can retrieve a styleSheet object from the styleSheets collection or from the imports collection. Each item in these collections is a style sheet. A styleSheet object is available for a style sheet only if it is included in a document with a style or link element, or with an @import statement in a style element.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.

Example

This example uses the styleSheet object to change the cascading style sheets (CSS) values of inline and imported styles.

<STYLE>
BODY {background-color: #CFCFCF;}
@import url("otherStyleSheet.css");
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
window.onload=fnInit;
function fnInit(){
   // Access a rule in the styleSheet, change backgroundColor to blue.
   var oStyleSheet=document.styleSheets[0];
   var oRule=oStyleSheet.rules[0];
   oRule.style.backgroundColor="#0000FF";
   // Add a rule for P elements to have yellow backgrounds.
   oStyleSheet.addRule("P","background-color: #FFFF00;");
   // Change and imported rule:
   oStyleSheet.imports[0].color="#000000";
}
</SCRIPT>

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this object.

Applies To

	styleSheets

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