rule Object

Represents a style within a cascading style sheet (CSS) that consists of a selector and one or more declarations.

Remarks

The rule object defines a set of CSS attributes applied to a set of HTML elements. For example, a rule consisting of the selector H1 and the declaration font-family:Arial defines all H1 elements to render in the Arial font.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.

Members

rule Members

Example

This example uses a rule object consisting of the selector H1 to define a single rule that changes the H1 heading(s) in a document to red.

Sample Code

<STYLE>
    H1 { color: red }
</STYLE>

If the style sheet containing the preceding rule is the first style sheet in the document, the following code returns the rule object associated with the rule.

oRule=document.styleSheets(0).rules(0)

See Also

rules

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