Document: styleSheets property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The styleSheets read-only property of the Document interface returns a StyleSheetList of CSSStyleSheet objects, for stylesheets explicitly linked into or embedded in a document.

Value

The returned list is ordered as follows:

  • StyleSheets retrieved from Link headers are placed first, sorted in header order.
  • StyleSheets retrieved from the DOM are placed after, sorted in tree order.

Examples

Retrieving a specific stylesheet by its title

js
function getStyleSheet(uniqueTitle) {
  for (const sheet of document.styleSheets) {
    if (sheet.title === uniqueTitle) {
      return sheet;
    }
  }
}

Accessing rules in the stylesheet

You can access these stylesheets and their rules individually using the stylesheet, style, and CSSRule objects, as demonstrated in this example, which prints out all of the style rule selectors to the console.

js
for (const styleSheet of document.styleSheets) {
  for (const rule of styleSheet.cssRules) {
    console.log(`${rule.selectorText}\n`);
  }
}

For a document with a single stylesheet in which the following three rules are defined:

css
body {
  background-color: darkblue;
}
p {
  font-family: "Arial";
  font-size: 10pt;
  margin-left: 0.125in;
}
#lumpy {
  display: none;
}

This script outputs the following:

BODY
P
#LUMPY

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# dom-documentorshadowroot-stylesheets

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
styleSheets
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 4 (Release date: 2009-06-08)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 3.2 (Release date: 2010-04-03)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 3.2 (Release date: 2010-04-03)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support