Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

cssText — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Returns a string of the entire CSS style sheet rule applied to the element. If the rule included shorthand style attribute settings (such as border), the components for each of the four sides are spelled out (although not down to the most granular specifications). For example, if you set the STYLE attribute of an element to STYLE="border: groove red 3px", the cssText property for that element returns:

BORDER-TOP: 3px groove red; BORDER-RIGHT: 3px groove red; 
BORDER-BOTTOM: 3px groove red; BORDER-LEFT: 3px groove red

You can assign a shorthand value to the property, however.

Example

document.all.block3.style.cssText = "margin: 2px; font-size: 14pt"

Value

String value of semicolon-delimited style attributes.

Default

None.