CSSStyleSheet: deleteRule() method

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 CSSStyleSheet method deleteRule() removes a rule from the stylesheet object.

Syntax

js
deleteRule(index)

Parameters

index

The index into the stylesheet's CSSRuleList indicating the rule to be removed.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

This example removes the first rule from the stylesheet myStyles.

js
myStyles.deleteRule(0);

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# dom-cssstylesheet-deleterule

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deleteRule()

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