CSSStyleDeclaration: cssText property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 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.

Value

A string containing the text of the element's inline style declaration.

Example

html
<span id="s1" style="color: red;"> Some text </span>

<script>
  const elem = document.getElementById("s1");
  alert(elem.style.cssText); // "color: red;"
</script>

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# dom-cssstyledeclaration-csstext

Browser compatibility

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