Get CSS styles of an element
Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Created
17 Feb, 2020
Category
Level 1 — Basic
We can get all CSS styles via the
`getComputedStyle` method:js
const styles = window.getComputedStyle(ele, null);From there, it's easy to access the value of specific style:
js
// Get the background color
const bgColor = styles.backgroundColor;For the style that has a vendor prefix which starts with a hyphen (-), we can get the style value by passing the style:
js
const textSizeAdjust = styles['-webkit-text-size-adjust'];The
`getPropertyValue` method produces the same result:js
const bgColor = styles.getPropertyValue('background-color');
// Or turn the parameter to camelCase format:
const bgColor = styles.getPropertyValue('backgroundColor');#See also
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