StyleSheet: parentStyleSheet 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 parentStyleSheet property of the StyleSheet interface returns the style sheet, if any, that is including the given style sheet.

Value

A StyleSheet object.

Examples

js
// Find the top level stylesheet
const sheet = stylesheet.parentStyleSheet ?? stylesheet;

Notes

This property returns null if the current stylesheet is a top-level stylesheet or if stylesheet inclusion is not supported.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# dom-stylesheet-parentstylesheet

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
parentStyleSheet

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