DocumentOrShadowRoot.styleSheets

The styleSheets read-only property of the DocumentOrShadowRoot interface returns a StyleSheetList of CSSStyleSheet objects, for stylesheets explicitly linked into or embedded in a document.

Syntax

var styleSheetList = document.styleSheets;

Returns

The returned object is a StyleSheetList of CSSStyleSheet objects.

Examples

function getStyleSheet(unique_title) {
  for(var i=0; i<document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
    var sheet = document.styleSheets[i];
    if(sheet.title == unique_title) {
      return sheet;
    }
  }
}

Notes

The returned list is ordered as follows:

• StyleSheets retrieved from Link headers are placed first, sorted in header order.
• StyleSheets retrieved from the DOM are placed after, sorted in tree order.

Specifications

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