Get Property Value in CSS style

Description

The following code shows how to explore CSS Properties Programmatically in Javascript.

Example


<!--   ww  w.jav a  2 s  . c o  m-->
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style title="core styles">
p {
  color: white;
  background-color: gray;
  padding: 5px;
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
  <p id="block1">
     This is a test.  
  </p>
  <div id="placeholder"></div>
  <script>
    var placeholder = document.getElementById("placeholder");
    displayStyles();
    function displayStyles() {
      var newElem = document.createElement("pre");
      newElem.setAttribute("border", "1");
      var style = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style;
      for ( var i = 0; i < style.length; i++) {
        newElem.innerHTML+=style[i]+" "+style.getPropertyValue(style[i]);
      }
      placeholder.appendChild(newElem);
    }
  </script>
</body>
</html>

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Example 2


<!--  www  . j av a  2 s . c  o  m-->
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style title="core styles">
p {
  color: white;
  border: medium double black;
  background-color: gray;
  padding-top: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <p id="block1">This is a test.</p>
  <div>
    <button id="pressme">Press Me</button>
  </div>
  <div id="placeholder"></div>
  <script>
    var placeholder = document.getElementById("placeholder");
    displayStyles();
    document.getElementById("pressme").onclick = function() {
      var styleDeclr = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style;
      styleDeclr.setProperty("background-color", "lightgray");
      styleDeclr.setProperty("padding-top", "20px");
      styleDeclr.setProperty("color", "black");
      displayStyles();
    }
    function displayStyles() {
      if (placeholder.hasChildNodes()) {
        var childCount = placeholder.childNodes.length;
        for (var i = 0; i < childCount; i++) {
          placeholder.removeChild(placeholder.firstChild);
        }
      }
      var newElem = document.createElement("pre");
      newElem.setAttribute("border", "1");
      var style = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style;
      newElem.innerHTML += "border" + style.getPropertyValue("border");
      newElem.innerHTML += "color" + style.getPropertyValue("color");
      newElem.innerHTML += "padding-top" + style.getPropertyValue("padding-top");
      newElem.innerHTML += "background-color" + style.getPropertyValue("background-color");
      placeholder.appendChild(newElem);
    }
  </script>
</body>
</html>

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