How do you add CSS with Javascript?

Question

How do you add CSS rules (eg strong { color: red }) by use of Javascript?

Answer 1

You can add classes or style attributes on an element by element basis.

For example:

<a name="myelement" onclick="this.style.color='#FF0';">text</a>

Where you could do this.style.background, this.style.font-size, etc. You can also apply a style using this same method ala

this.className='classname';

If you want to do this in a javascript function, you can use getElementByID rather than 'this'.

Answer 2

You can also do this using DOM Level 2 CSS interfaces (MDN):

var sheet = window.document.styleSheets[0];
sheet.insertRule('strong { color: red; }', sheet.cssRules.length);

...on all but (naturally) IE8 and prior, which uses its own marginally-different wording:

sheet.addRule('strong', 'color: red;', -1);

There is a theoretical advantage in this compared to the createElement-set-innerHTML method, in that you don't have to worry about putting special HTML characters in the innerHTML, but in practice style elements are CDATA in legacy HTML, and ‘<’ and ‘&’ are rarely used in stylesheets anyway.

You do need a stylesheet in place before you can started appending to it like this. That can be any existing active stylesheet: external, embedded or empty, it doesn't matter. If there isn't one, the only standard way to create it at the moment is with createElement.

Answer 3

The simple-and-direct approach is to create and add a new style node to the document.

// Your CSS as text
var styles = `
    .qwebirc-qui .ircwindow div { 
        font-family: Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;
        margin: 26px auto 0 auto;
        max-width: 650px;
    }
    .qwebirc-qui .lines {
        font-size: 18px;
        line-height: 1.58;
        letter-spacing: -.004em;
    }

    .qwebirc-qui .nicklist a {
        margin: 6px;
    }
`

var styleSheet = document.createElement("style")
styleSheet.type = "text/css"
styleSheet.innerText = styles
document.head.appendChild(styleSheet)

Answer 4

YUI just recently added a utility specifically for this. See stylesheet.js here.

Answer 5

use .css in Jquery like $('strong').css('background','red');

$('strong').css('background','red');

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<strong> Example
</strong> 

Answer 6

This is my solution to add a css rule at the end of the last style sheet list:

var css = new function()
{
    function addStyleSheet()
    {
        let head = document.head;
        let style = document.createElement("style");

        head.appendChild(style);
    }

    this.insert = function(rule)
    {
        if(document.styleSheets.length == 0) { addStyleSheet(); }

        let sheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length - 1];
        let rules = sheet.rules;

        sheet.insertRule(rule, rules.length);
    }
}

css.insert("body { background-color: red }");