That works for Firefox, which treats the cssText as a textNode but fails in
Internet Explorer.


Yansky wrote:
> 
> You could also do $("style").html("p{color:green;}"); if you wanted a
> non-inline style rule applied to the page.
> 
> 
> Danny Wachsstock wrote:
>> 
>> This may be helpful to someone: I made a jQuery extension that lets you
>> change the stylesheet styles, rather than the inline styles (which is
>> what jQuery generally does). So you can do:
>> 
>> $.style('p').css('color','green');
>> 
>> creates a stylesheet with a rule that sets the color of P elements,
>> including any that are created in the future. That's different from
>> $('p').css('color','green'); which changes the color of any existing P
>> elements only.
>> 
>> It also takes an options object that can specify the media of the
>> stylesheet, so:
>> 
>> $.style('div', {media: 'print'}).css('background', 'none');
>> 
>> sets the background only for printing.
>> 
>> Some notes:
>> --The selector can only be something that your browser understands; no
>> XPath or CSS3 or other fancy jQuery stuff.
>> --The returned object is not a real jQuery object but an array of CSS
>> rules; most of the jQuery functions will give errors. The only useful
>> function that works is .css(), and that only to set the style;
>> $.style('p').css('color') gives an error. There ought to be a way to get
>> the style, but I haven't found it yet.
>> --For large numbers of elements, it ought to be faster to change the
>> stylesheet than to change the style of each element, but I haven't tested
>> that yet.
>> 
>> The code:
>> 
>>   $.style = function(selector, options){
>>     options = $.extend ({type: 'text/css', media: 'all'}, options);
>>     var style =
>> $(document.createElement('style')).attr(options).appendTo('head')[0];
>>     if (style.styleSheet){
>>       // IE
>>       var sheet = style.styleSheet;
>>       sheet.addRule(selector, null);
>>       return $(sheet.rules[0]);
>>     }else if (style.sheet){
>>       // Firefox
>>       sheet = style.sheet;
>>       sheet.insertRule(selector+' {}',0);
>>       return $(sheet.cssRules[0]);
>>     }
>>   };
>> 
>> This creates a new stylesheet (really a <STYLE> element) each time it's
>> called. A fancier version that caches the stylesheets is:
>> 
>>   $.style = function (selector, options){
>>     options = $.extend ({type: 'text/css', media: 'all'}, options);
>>     var sheet = $.style.sheets[options.media];
>>     if (!sheet){
>>       var style =
>> $(document.createElement('style')).attr(options).appendTo('head')[0]; 
>>       if (style.styleSheet){
>>         // IE
>>         $.style.sheets[options.media] = sheet = style.styleSheet;
>>       }else if (style.sheet){
>>         // Firefox
>>         $.style.sheets[options.media] = sheet = style.sheet;
>>         sheet.rules = []; // lets us use the same rules array
>>       }
>>     }
>>     if (sheet.rules [selector]) return $(sheet.rules [selector]);
>>     if (sheet.cssRules){
>>       // Firefox
>>       sheet.insertRule(selector+' {}',sheet.cssRules.length);
>>       return $(sheet.rules[selector] =
>> sheet.cssRules[sheet.cssRules.length-1]);
>>     }else{
>>       // IE
>>       sheet.addRule(selector, null);
>>       return $(sheet.rules[selector] =
>> sheet.rules[sheet.rules.length-1]);
>>     }      
>>   };
>>   $.style.sheets = [];
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Danny Wachsstock
>> 
> 
> 

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