How do you add CSS with Javascript?

Question

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

Answer 1

if you know at least one <style> tag exist in page , use this function :

CSS=function(i){document.getElementsByTagName('style')[0].innerHTML+=i};

usage :

CSS("div{background:#00F}");

Answer 2

Here's my general-purpose function which parametrizes the CSS selector and rules, and optionally takes in a css filename (case-sensitive) if you wish to add to a particular sheet instead (otherwise, if you don't provide a CSS filename, it will create a new style element and append it to the existing head. It will make at most one new style element and re-use it on future function calls). Works with FF, Chrome, and IE9+ (maybe earlier too, untested).

function addCssRules(selector, rules, /*Optional*/ sheetName) {
    // We want the last sheet so that rules are not overridden.
    var styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length - 1];
    if (sheetName) {
        for (var i in document.styleSheets) {
            if (document.styleSheets[i].href && document.styleSheets[i].href.indexOf(sheetName) > -1) {
                styleSheet = document.styleSheets[i];
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    if (typeof styleSheet === 'undefined' || styleSheet === null) {
        var styleElement = document.createElement("style");
        styleElement.type = "text/css";
        document.head.appendChild(styleElement);
        styleSheet = styleElement.sheet;
    }

    if (styleSheet) {
        if (styleSheet.insertRule)
            styleSheet.insertRule(selector + ' {' + rules + '}', styleSheet.cssRules.length);
        else if (styleSheet.addRule)
            styleSheet.addRule(selector, rules);
    }
}