modify a css rule object with javascript

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Changing a CSS rule-set from Javascript

I was wondering if there is any possibility to modify Css stylesheet declarations without going for inline styling.

Here is a quick example :

<style>
    .box {color:green;}
    .box:hover {color:blue;}
</style>

<div class="box">TEXT</div>

That gives a blue written box that turns green written on hover.

If I give inline styling for the color, the hover behavior will be lost :

<div class="box" style="color:red;">TEXT</box>

That gives a red written box, no matter what.

So my question is, how can one access and modify the css declaration object rather than overwriting styles with inline ones.

Thanks,

Solution

You could use the cssRules on the DOM stylesheet object corresponding to your original stylesheet to modify your rule.

var sheet = document.styleSheets[0];
var rules = sheet.cssRules || sheet.rules;

rules[0].style.color = 'red';

Note that IE uses rules instead of cssRules.