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Asked: 2026-05-22T03:09:31+00:00

I’ve searched for an answer and no solution seems to fix this problem, so

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I’ve searched for an answer and no solution seems to fix this problem, so hopefully stating it specifically will help me find a solution.

I’m trying to read cssText of the first stylesheet using document.styleSheets[0].cssText, but it always returns undefined. I do have a stylesheet and it’s visibly noticeable, but JavaScript doesn’t seem to recognize it.

This did, however, work when I included the stylesheet within the page using <style>. I don’t see why this would change when using <link>, though. Not only is it placed before the script, but it even returns undefined when using javascript:alert(document.styleSheets[0].cssText) in the omnibar after the page is fully loaded.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: This applies to any method with document.styleSheets[0], including those of which are supposed to work on multiple browsers and have worked for me prior to using <link>. For example: document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].selectorText

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to quirksmode.org, document.styleSheets[n].cssText is only supported in IE.

    The form

    document.styleSheets[n].cssRules[m].cssText

    seems to be more widely supported, so you could just loop over that and build a string from the individual rules. (Although you have to replace cssRules with rules for IE).

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