CSS Declaration
ACSS declaration is an abstract concept not exposed as an object in the DOM. It represents a CSS property and value pairing.
A CSS declaration has the following associated properties:
- property name
The property name of the declaration, for example
background-color.- value
The value of the declaration as a list of component values.
- important flag
Either set or unset.
- case-sensitive flag
Set if the property name is defined to be case-sensitive according to the specification, otherwise unset.
Basic example
The following example shows a CSS rule with aCSS declaration block for the<h1> element. The CSS declaration block is the lines between the curly braces, it contains two CSS declarations. One forfont-style and another forcolor.
css
h1 { font-style: italic; color: rebeccapurple;}Specifications
| Specification |
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| CSS Object Model (CSSOM) # css-declarations |