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Window: getComputedStyle() method

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The Window.getComputedStyle() method returns an object containing the values of all CSS properties of an element, after applying active stylesheets and resolving any basic computation those values may contain.

Individual CSS property values are accessed through APIs provided by the returned CSSStyleDeclaration object, or by indexing with CSS property names. The values returned by getComputedStyle are resolved values.

Syntax
getComputedStyle(element)
getComputedStyle(element, pseudoElt)
Parameters
element

The Element for which to get the computed style.

pseudoElt Optional

A string specifying the pseudo-element to match. Omitted (or null) for real elements.

Return value

A live CSSStyleDeclaration object, which updates automatically when the element's styles are changed.

Note that:

The returned object is the same CSSStyleDeclaration type as the object returned from the element's style property. However, the two objects have different purposes:

Exceptions
TypeError

If the passed object is not an Element or the pseudoElt is not a valid pseudo-element selector or is ::part() or ::slotted().

Note: Valid pseudo-element selector refers to syntactic validity, e.g., ::unsupported is considered valid, even though the pseudo-element itself is not supported. Additionally, the latest W3 standard explicitly supports only ::before and ::after, while the CSS WG draft does not restrict this value. Browser compatibility may vary.

Examples Retrieving computed styles

In this example we style a <p> element, then retrieve those styles using getComputedStyle(), and print them into the text content of the <p>.

HTML CSS
p {
  width: 400px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 20px;
  font: 2rem/2 sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
  background: purple;
  color: white;
}
JavaScript
const para = document.querySelector("p");
const compStyles = window.getComputedStyle(para);
para.textContent =
  `My computed font-size is ${compStyles.getPropertyValue("font-size")},\n` +
  `and my computed line-height is ${compStyles.getPropertyValue(
    "line-height",
  )}.`;
Result Use with pseudo-elements

getComputedStyle can pull style info from pseudo-elements (such as ::after, ::before, ::marker, ::line-marker — see the pseudo-element spec).

<style>
  h3::after {
    content: " rocks!";
  }
</style>

<h3>Generated content</h3>

<script>
  const h3 = document.querySelector("h3");
  const result = getComputedStyle(h3, ":after").content;

  console.log("the generated content is: ", result); // returns ' rocks!'
</script>
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