Dynamically change CSS rules in JavaScript or jQuery

Question

I\'m looking for a way to change the CSS rules of my stylesheet imported in the document. So I have an external stylesheet and some class and div attri

Answer 1

If you want to add a rule, instead of editing each element's style directly, you can use CSSStyleSheet.insertRule(). It takes two parameters: the rule as a string, and where to insert the rule.

Example from the above link:

// push a new rule onto the top of my stylesheet
myStyle.insertRule("#blanc { color: white }", 0);

In this case, myStyle is the .sheet member of a style element.

As far as I can tell, the style element must be inserted into the document before you can grab its sheet, and it can't be an external sheet. You can also grab a sheet from document.styleSheets, e.g.

var myStyle = document.styleSheets[1]; // Must not be a linked sheet.
myStyle.insertRule("#blanc { color: white }", 0);

Note: The page recommends modifying elements by changing their classes, instead of modifying the rules.

Answer 2

You jQuery .css() method to do that.

$('.red').css('color', 'purple');

For multiple rules:

$('.red').css({
    'color': 'purple',
    'font-size': '20px'
});

When you add dynamic element in future to DOM by the way of append, just give those element some class or id and write CSS rules like above after appending them and they will applied for all dynamically created element.

Working sample

Note

Add dynamic rules is not a good solution in my point of view. Instead of the you can load some external CSS file.

But if you need something like dynamic rules add method then:

$('head').append(
  $('<style/>', {
    id: 'mystyle',
    html: '.red {color: purple }'
  })
);

And for future use:

$('#mystyle').append(' .someother { color: green; font-size: 13px } ');

Working sample

Answer 3

You can inject style declarations into the DOM.

$("head").append('<style>.red { color: purple }</style>');