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style

Summary

Defines style information for an HTML document. Inside the style element you specify how HTML elements should render in a browser. Each HTML document can contain multiple style tags.

Overview Table

DOM Interface
HTMLStyleElement

Examples

This example encloses style declarations in the STYLE element and changes one of those settings using the style object.

<HEAD>
<STYLE>
   BODY {  background-color: white; color: black;  }
   H1 {  font: 8pt Arial bold;  }
   P  {  font: 10pt Arial; text-indent: 0.5in;  }
   A  {  text-decoration: none; color: blue;  }
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
    oParagraph.style.fontSize = 14;
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>Sample Paragraph Text</P>
</BODY>

Notes

Remarks

The STYLE element should appear in the HEAD section of an HTML document. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and later permit multiple style blocks.

The STYLE element should appear in the HEAD section of an HTML document. Multiple style blocks are permitted.

Standards information

Members

The style object has these types of members:

  • [#events Events]
  • [#methods Methods]
  • [#properties Properties]

Events

The style object has these events. {

Related specifications

HTML 5.1
W3C Working Draft
HTML 5
W3C Recommendation
HTML 4.01
W3C Recommendation

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