Baseline Widely available
The CSSStyleDeclaration.setProperty()
method interface sets a new value for a property on a CSS style declaration object.
setProperty(propertyName, value)
setProperty(propertyName, value, priority)
Parameters
propertyName
A string representing the CSS property name (hyphen case) to be modified.
value
Optional
A string containing the new property value. If not specified, treated as the empty string. A null
value is treated the same as the empty string (""
).
Note: value
must not contain "!important"
, that should be set using the priority
parameter.
priority
Optional
A string allowing the CSS priority to be set to important. Only the values listed below are accepted:
"important"
(case-insensitive) for setting the property as !important
;""
, undefined
, or null
for removing the !important
flag if present.Anything else causes the method to return early and no change to happen (unless value
is empty, in which case the property is removed regardless of the priority
value). false
, for example, is not a valid priority value.
None (undefined
).
NoModificationAllowedError
DOMException
Thrown if the property or declaration block is read only.
If priority
can be omitted, JavaScript has a special simpler syntax for setting a CSS property on a style declaration object:
style.cssPropertyName = "value";
Examples
In this example we have three buttons, which can be pressed to dynamically alter our box paragraph's border, background color, and text color to random values (see the live example at the end of this section).
We know that the rule we want to alter to do this is contained inside the second stylesheet applied to the page, so we grab a reference to it using document.styleSheets[1]
. We then loop through the different rules contained inside the stylesheet, which are contained in the array found at stylesheet.cssRules
; for each one, we check whether its CSSStyleRule.selectorText
property is equal to the selector .box p
, which indicates it is the one we want.
If so, we store a reference to this CSSStyleRule
object in a variable. We then use three functions to generate random values for the properties in question, and update the rule with these values. In each case, this is done with the setProperty()
method, for example boxParaRule.style.setProperty('border', newBorder);
.
<div class="controls">
<button class="border">Border</button>
<button class="bgcolor">Background</button>
<button class="color">Text</button>
</div>
<div class="box">
<p>Box</p>
</div>
CSS
html {
background: orange;
font-family: sans-serif;
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: inherit;
width: 80%;
min-width: 500px;
max-width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.controls {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-around;
align-items: center;
}
div button {
flex: 1;
margin: 20px;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
}
.box {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
height: calc(100% - 70px);
}
.box p {
width: 50%;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 40px;
height: 150px;
line-height: 150px;
background: red;
border: 5px solid purple;
color: white;
transition: all 1s;
}
JavaScript
const borderBtn = document.querySelector(".border");
const bgColorBtn = document.querySelector(".bgcolor");
const colorBtn = document.querySelector(".color");
const box = document.querySelector(".box");
function random(min, max) {
const num = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min)) + min;
return num;
}
function randomColor() {
return `rgb(${random(0, 255)} ${random(0, 255)} ${random(0, 255)})`;
}
const stylesheet = document.styleSheets[1];
const boxParaRule = [...stylesheet.cssRules].find(
(r) => r.selectorText === ".box p",
);
function setRandomBorder() {
const newBorder = `${random(1, 50)}px solid ${randomColor()}`;
boxParaRule.style.setProperty("border", newBorder);
}
function setRandomBgColor() {
const newBgColor = randomColor();
boxParaRule.style.setProperty("background-color", newBgColor);
}
function setRandomColor() {
const newColor = randomColor();
boxParaRule.style.setProperty("color", newColor);
}
borderBtn.addEventListener("click", setRandomBorder);
bgColorBtn.addEventListener("click", setRandomBgColor);
colorBtn.addEventListener("click", setRandomColor);
Result Specifications Browser compatibility
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HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4