MediaList: mediaText 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 mediaText property of the MediaList interface is a stringifier that returns a string representing the MediaList as text, and also allows you to set a new MediaList.

Value

A string representing the media queries of a stylesheet. Each one is separated by a comma, for example screen and (width >= 480px), print.

If you wish to set new media queries on the document, the string value must have the different queries separated by commas, e.g., screen, print. Note that the MediaList is a live list; updating the list via mediaText will immediately update the behavior of the document.

When set to the null value, that null value is converted to the empty string (""), so ml.mediaText = null is equivalent to ml.mediaText = "".

Examples

The following would log to the console a textual representation of the MediaList of the first stylesheet applied to the current document.

js
const stylesheets = document.styleSheets;
let stylesheet = stylesheets[0];
console.log(stylesheet.media.mediaText);

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM)
# dom-medialist-mediatext

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
mediaText
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 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23)
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 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
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 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support