CSSStyleDeclaration: parentRule 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 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.

Value

The CSS rule that contains this declaration block or null if this CSSStyleDeclaration is not attached to a CSSRule.

Examples

The following JavaScript code gets the parent CSS style rule from a CSSStyleDeclaration:

js
const declaration = document.styleSheets[0].rules[0].style;
const rule = declaration.parentRule;

Specifications

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

Browser compatibility

Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHub
desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
parentRule

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
Full support