Modifying CSS class property values on the fly with JavaScript jQuery

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I ve run into a unique situation that I have so far been unable to find a solution for  dynamically assigning a value to a CSS style   I know how to use jQuery to assign width  height  etc  to an element  but what I m trying to do is actually change the value defined in the stylesheet so that the dynamically-created value can be assigned to multiple elements     What I m building is a slideshow of images that occupy the full viewport  recalculating the image s width  height  and left properties on resize so that the image is always centered  favors width over height  except when the viewport is taller than it is wide  resizing does not reload the page  just fires a function to resize the image      I have successfully been able to get it to work on one image  and now I m trying to determine the best way to assign those property values to all images in the slideshow without having to specify those three things individually for every image     My Question   Can the values of properties in a class be modified on the fly   I m sure the answer is out there  I m probably just not using the correct terminology in my searches   Hope I did a good job of describing the problem   TIA

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Nice question  A lot of the answers here had a solution directly contradicting what you were asking   I know how to use jQuery to assign width  height  etc  to an element  but what I m trying to do is actually change the value defined in the stylesheet so that the dynamically-created value can be assigned to multiple elements     jQuery  css styles elements inline  it doesn t change the physical CSS rule  If you want to do this  I would suggest using a vanilla JavaScript solution   document styleSheets 0  cssRules 0  cssText            myID            myRule  myValue           myOtherRule  myOtherValue             This way  you re setting the stylesheet css rule  not appending an inline style   Hope this helps

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Contrary to some of the answers here  editing the stylesheet itself with Javascript is not only possible  but higher performance  Simply doing     myclass   css  color  red   will end up looping through every item matching the selector and individually setting the style attribute  This is really inefficient and if you have hundreds of elements  it s going to cause problems   Changing classes on the items is a better idea  but you still suffer from the same problem in that you re changing an attribute on N items  which could be a large number  A better solution might be to change the class on one single parent item or a small number of parents and then hit the target items using the  Cascade  in css  This serves in most situations  but not all   Sometimes you need to change the CSS of a lot of items to something dynamic  or there s no good way for you to do so by hitting a small number of parents  Changing the stylesheet itself  or adding a small new one to override the existing css is an extremely efficient way to change the display of items  You re only interacting with the DOM in one spot and the browser can handle deploying those changes really efficiently   jss is one library that helps make it easier to directly edit the stylesheet from javascript

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The way to dynamically modify a CSS property value in a CSS class is by using a CSS variable in the CSS class property value  and then use JavaScript and the DOM to change the CSS variable   The end result is that the styling on the device screen will immediately change when the code runs that sets the new CSS variable value   So  code changes the CSS variable  and the CSS variable is used in the CSS class setting   Note that a CSS class name and a JavaScript Class are two different things   Use a CSS Variable Put the CSS variable where the static CSS class property value would normally be Use code to set a new CSS variable value The change to the CSS variable changes the CSS class property value and that causes the styling on the device screen to change  CSS - Styling  lt style gt     root      Set CSS variable values - These values can be changed with JavaScript      and DOM      --myCSS ValueOne  initialValue           classNameHere       property Name Here  var --myCSS ValueOne     This CSS property gets its value from     the CSS variable           lt  style gt   JavaScript and DOM  lt script gt    var r   document querySelector   root     Get global root element    function setA NewCSS VariableValue         r style setProperty  --myCSS ValueOne    the New Value      Set a new CSS variable         value which immediately changes the CSS class setting because the CSS         property setting uses a CSS Variable -      lt  script gt   It is also possible to run a function in response to media queries  changes in the device viewport - like width of the device screen  using the matchMedia   method  var x   window matchMedia  quot  max-width  300px  quot   x addListener setA NewCSS VariableValue     create a listener function that runs   when the viewport is less than  or equal to  300 pixels wide

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Why not just use a  class selector to modify the properties of every object in that class   ie       myclass   css  color  red

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Like  benvie said  its more efficient to change a style sheet rather than using jQuery css  which will loop through all of the elements in the set    It is also important not to add a new style to the head every time the function is called because it will create a memory leak and thousands of CSS rules that have to be individually applied by the browser  I would do something like this     Add the stylesheet once and store a cached jQuery object var  style       lt style type  text css  gt    appendTo  head      function onResize         var css               someClass                left      leftVal                 width     widthVal                 height    heightVal                       style html css       This solution will change your styles by modifying the DOM only once per resize  Note that for effective js minification and compression  you probably don t want to pretty-print the css  but I did for clarity

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Use jquery to add a style override in the  lt head gt        lt style gt  someClass  color  red   input  -webkit-outer-spin-button   display  none   lt  style gt     appendTo  head

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I ve got a solution for changing a value in specific CSS class  But it only works if you keep your CSS in the  tag  If you just keep a link to your CSS from external files ex     lt style src  script js  gt  lt  style gt    this solution won t work   If your css looks like this for example     lt style id  style  gt   foo   height 50px     lt  style gt    You can change a value of the tag using JS jQuery   I ve written a function  perhaps it s not the best one but it works  You can improve it if you want   function replaceClassProp cl prop val    if  cl     prop     val  console error  Wrong function arguments   return false        Select style tag value  var tag     style        var style     tag  text        var str   style      Find the class you want to change     var n   str indexOf     cl       str   str substr n str length       n   str indexOf           str   str substr 0 n 1        var before   str      Find specific property      n   str indexOf prop       str   str substr n str length       n   str indexOf           str   str substr 0 n 1       Replace the property with values you selected      var after   before replace str prop     val           style style replace before after       Submit changes        tag  text style        Then just change the tag variable into your style tag id and exegute   replaceClassProp  foo   height   50px      The difference between this and     foo   css  height   50px    is that when you do it with css method of jQuery  all elements that have  foo class will have visible style  height 50px  in DOM  If you do it my way  elements are untouched and the only thing youll see is class  foo   Advantages   Clear DOM You can modify the property you want without replacing the whole style   Disadvantages   Only internal CSS You have to find specific style tag you want to edit   Hope it helps anyhow

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Demo  IE demo  You could use the following function   function setStyle cssText        var sheet   document createElement  style        sheet type    text css          Optional    window customSheet   sheet       document head    document getElementsByTagName  head   0   appendChild sheet       return  setStyle   function cssText  node            if  node    node parentNode     sheet              return sheet appendChild document createTextNode cssText            node nodeValue   cssText          return node         cssText        Features    The function is written in vanilla-js  so it has better performance than jQuery alternatives One stylesheet is created after the first call to setStyle  so if you don t call it  it won t create any stylesheet  The same stylesheet is reused for the following calls of setStyle The function return a reference to the node associated with the bunch of CSS that you have added  If you call the function again with that node as a second argument  it will replace the old CSS with the new one    Example  var myCSS   setStyle     color red       setStyle     color blue      myCSS      Replaces the previous CSS with this one   Browser support  At least  it works on IE9  FF3  Chrome 1  Safari 4  Opera 10 5   There s also an IE version which works both on modern browsers and old versions of IE   Works on IE8 and IE7  but can crash IE6

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YUI 2 and 3 has a module stylesheet that will let you do just that  edit stylesheets on the fly with javascript   http   yuilibrary com yui docs stylesheet   So I think it is possible  This is not the same as     some   css        but really change add remove styles definition from stylesheet  just like the user asked

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Okay   had the same problem and fixed it  but the solution may not be for everyone   If you know the indexes of the style sheet and rule you want to delete  try something like document styleSheets 1  deleteRule 0      From the start  I had my main css  index 0  file  Then  I created a new file  js edit css  index 1   that only contained one rule with the properties I wanted to remove when the page had finished loading  after a bunch of other JS functions too    Now  since js edit css loads after main css  you can just insert delete rules in js edit css as you please and they will override the ones in main css   var x   document styleSheets 1   x insertRule  p   font-size  2rem      x cssRules length     x cssRules length returns the number of rules in the second  index 1  style sheet thus inserting the new rule at the end   I m sure you can use a bunch of for-loops to search for the rule property you want to modify and then rewrite the whole rule within the same sheet  but I found this way simpler for my needs   http   www quirksmode org dom w3c css html helped me a lot

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This may be late to the discussion  but I needed something like what is being talked about here  but didn t find anything that really did what I wanted  and did it easily   What I needed was to hide and show numerous elements without explicitly visiting each element individually to update them in some way that changed the display style to and from hidden   So I came up with the following    lt style gt       The bulk of the css rules should go here or in an external css file         None of these rules will be changed  but may be overridden       aclass   display  inline-block  width  50px  height  30px     lt  style gt   lt style id  style  gt       Only the rules to be changed should go in this style       bclass   display  inline-block     lt  style gt   lt script gt            This is a helper function that returns the named style as an object       This could also be done in other ways          function setStyle     return document getElementById   style        lt  script gt   lt div id  d1  class  aclass  style  background-color  green   gt    Hi  lt  div gt   lt  -- The element to be shown and hidden -- gt    lt div id  d2  class  aclass bclass  style  background-color  yellow   gt    there  lt  div gt   lt div id  d3  class  aclass  style  background-color  lightblue   gt    sailor  lt  div gt   lt hr   gt   lt  -- These buttons demonstrate hiding and showing the d3 dive element -- gt   lt button onclick  setStyle   innerHTML     bclass   display  none       gt    Hide  lt  button gt  amp nbsp  amp nbsp   lt button onclick  setStyle   innerHTML     bclass   display  inline-block       gt    Show  lt  button gt    By toggling the bclass rule in the embedded and named stylesheet  which comes after the any other relevant style sheets  in this case one with the aclass rule  I could update the just the display css rule in one place and have it override the aclass rule  which also had it s own display rule   The beauty of this technique is that it is so simple  effectively one line that does the actual work  it doesn t require any libraries  such as JQuery or plug-ins  and the real work of updating all of the places where the change applies is performed by the browser s css core functionality  not in JavaScript   Also  it works in IE 9 and above  Chrome  Safari  Opera  and all of the other browsers that MicroSoft Edge could emulate  for desktop and tablet phones devices

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function changeStyle findSelector  newRules           Change original css style declaration         for   s in document styleSheets             var CssRulesStyle   document styleSheets s  cssRules          for   x in CssRulesStyle                 if   CssRulesStyle x  selectorText    findSelector                    for   cssprop in newRules                         CssRulesStyle x  style cssprop    newRules cssprop                                      return true                                     return false     changeStyle   exact  myStyle  declaration     width   200px    height   400px    color    F00

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You can t modify the members of a CSS class on the fly  However  you could introduce a new  lt style gt  tag on the page with your new css class implementation  and then switch out the class  Example   Sample css   someClass   border  1px solid black  font-size  20px      You want to change that class entirely  so you create a new style element    lt style gt      someClassReplacement   border  1px solid white  font-size  14px            lt  style gt    You then do a simple replacement via jQuery       someClass   removeClass  someClass   addClass  someClassReplacement

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This solution modifies Cycne s to use ES6 syntax and exit the loop early for external stylesheets  This solution does not modify external stylesheets   x000D   x000D  function changeStyle findSelector  newDeclarations    x000D         Change original css style declaration  x000D      document styleSheets forEach  sheet    gt    x000D        if  sheet href  return  x000D        const cssRulesList   sheet cssRules  x000D        cssRulesList forEach  styleRule    gt    x000D          if  styleRule selectorText     findSelector    x000D            Object keys newDeclarations  forEach  cssProp    gt    x000D              styleRule style cssProp    newDeclarations cssProp   x000D                x000D            x000D            x000D          x000D      x000D   x000D    const styleDeclarations     x000D       width    200px   x000D       height    400px   x000D       color     F00  x000D       x000D    changeStyle   paintBox   styleDeclarations   x000D   x000D   x000D    You must also have at least one style tag in your HTML head section  for example   lt style gt   paintBox  background-color  white   lt  style gt

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You should really rethink your approach to this issue   Using a well crafted selector and attaching the class may be a more elegant solution to this approach   As far as I know you cannot modify external CSS

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