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I'm assuming it's not possible, but just in case it is or someone has a nice trick up their sleeves, is there a way to target certain characters using CSS?
For example make all letters z in paragraphs red, or in my particular case set vertical-align:sup on all 7 in elements marked with the class chord.
Hi I know you said in CSS but as everybody told you, you can't, this is a javascript solution, just my 2 cents.
best...
JSFiddle
css
span.highlight{
background:#F60;
padding:5px;
display:inline-block;
color:#FFF;
}
p{
font-family:Verdana;
}
html
<p>
Let's go Zapata let's do it for the revolution, Zapatistas!!!
</p>
javascript
jQuery.fn.highlight = function (str, className) {
var regex = new RegExp(str, "gi");
return this.each(function () {
this.innerHTML = this.innerHTML.replace(regex, function(matched) {return "<span class=\"" + className + "\">" + matched + "</span>";});
});
};
$("p").highlight("Z","highlight");
Result
That's not possible in CSS. Your only option would be first-letter and that's not going to cut it. Either use JavaScript or (as you stated in your comments), your server-side language.
The only way to do it in CSS is to wrap them in a span and give the span a class. Then target all spans with that class.
As far as I understand it only works with regular characters/letters. For example: what if we want to highlight all asterisk (\u002A) symbols on page. Tried
$("p").highlight("u\(u002A)","highlight");in js and inserted * in html but it did not worked.
In reply to #ncubica but too long for a comment, here's a version that doesn't use regular expressions and doesn't alter any DOM nodes other than Text nodes. Pardon my CoffeeScript.
# DOM Element.nodeType:
NodeType =
ELEMENT: 1
ATTRIBUTE: 2
TEXT: 3
COMMENT: 8
# Tags all instances of text `target` with <span class=$class>$target</span>
#
jQuery.fn.tag = (target, css_class)->
#contents().each (index)->
jthis = $ #
switch #.nodeType
when NodeType.ELEMENT
jthis.tag target, css_class
when NodeType.TEXT
text = jthis.text()
altered = text.replaceAll target, "<span class=\"#{css_class}\">$&</span>"
if altered isnt text
jthis.replaceWith altered
($ document).ready ->
($ 'div#page').tag '⚀', 'die'
Many tools/APIs provide ways of selecting elements of specific classes or IDs. There's also possible to inspect the raw stylesheets loaded by the browser.
However, for browsers to render an element, they'll compile all CSS rules (possibly from different stylesheet files) and apply it to the element. This is what you see with Firebug or the WebKit Inspector - the full CSS inheritance tree for an element.
How can I reproduce this feature in pure JavaScript without requiring additional browser plugins?
Perhaps an example can provide some clarification for what I'm looking for:
<style type="text/css">
p { color :red; }
#description { font-size: 20px; }
</style>
<p id="description">Lorem ipsum</p>
Here the p#description element have two CSS rules applied: a red color and a font size of 20 px.
I would like to find the source from where these computed CSS rules originate from (color comes the p rule and so on).
Since this question currently doesn't have a lightweight (non-library), cross-browser compatible answer, I'll try to provide one:
function css(el) {
var sheets = document.styleSheets, ret = [];
el.matches = el.matches || el.webkitMatchesSelector || el.mozMatchesSelector
|| el.msMatchesSelector || el.oMatchesSelector;
for (var i in sheets) {
var rules = sheets[i].rules || sheets[i].cssRules;
for (var r in rules) {
if (el.matches(rules[r].selectorText)) {
ret.push(rules[r].cssText);
}
}
}
return ret;
}
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/HP326/6/
Calling css(document.getElementById('elementId')) will return an array with an element for each CSS rule that matches the passed element.
If you want to find out more specific information about each rule, check out the CSSRule object documentation.
Short version12 April 2017
Challenger appears.
var getMatchedCSSRules = (el, css = el.ownerDocument.styleSheets) =>
[].concat(...[...css].map(s => [...s.cssRules||[]])) /* 1 */
.filter(r => el.matches(r.selectorText)); /* 2 */
Line /* 1 */ builds a flat array of all rules.
Line /* 2 */ discards non-matching rules.
Based on function css(el) by #S.B. on the same page.
Example 1
var div = iframedoc.querySelector("#myelement");
var rules = getMatchedCSSRules(div, iframedoc.styleSheets);
console.log(rules[0].parentStyleSheet.ownerNode, rules[0].cssText);
Example 2
var getMatchedCSSRules = (el, css = el.ownerDocument.styleSheets) =>
[].concat(...[...css].map(s => [...s.cssRules||[]]))
.filter(r => el.matches(r.selectorText));
function Go(big,show) {
var r = getMatchedCSSRules(big);
PrintInfo:
var f = (dd,rr,ee="\n") => dd + rr.cssText.slice(0,50) + ee;
show.value += "--------------- Rules: ----------------\n";
show.value += f("Rule 1: ", r[0]);
show.value += f("Rule 2: ", r[1]);
show.value += f("Inline: ", big.style);
show.value += f("Computed: ", getComputedStyle(big), "(…)\n");
show.value += "-------- Style element (HTML): --------\n";
show.value += r[0].parentStyleSheet.ownerNode.outerHTML;
}
Go(...document.querySelectorAll("#big,#show"));
.red {color: red;}
#big {font-size: 20px;}
<h3 id="big" class="red" style="margin: 0">Lorem ipsum</h3>
<textarea id="show" cols="70" rows="10"></textarea>
Shortcomings
No media handling, no #import, #media.
No access to styles loaded from cross-domain stylesheets.
No sorting by selector “specificity” (order of importance).
No styles inherited from parents.
May not work with old or rudimentary browsers.
Not sure how it copes with pseudo-classes and pseudo-selectors but seems to fare okay.
Maybe I will address these shortcomings one day.
Long version12 August 2018
Here’s a much more comprehensive implementation taken from someone’s GitHub page
(forked from this original code, via Bugzilla). Written for Gecko and IE, but is rumoured to work also with Blink.
4 May 2017: The specificity calculator has had critical bugs which I have now fixed. (I can’t notify the authors because I don’t have a GitHub account.)
12 August 2018: Recent Chrome updates seem to have decoupled object scope (this) from methods assigned to independent variables. Therefore invocation matcher(selector) has stopped working. Replacing it by matcher.call(el, selector) has solved it.
// polyfill window.getMatchedCSSRules() in FireFox 6+
if (typeof window.getMatchedCSSRules !== 'function') {
var ELEMENT_RE = /[\w-]+/g,
ID_RE = /#[\w-]+/g,
CLASS_RE = /\.[\w-]+/g,
ATTR_RE = /\[[^\]]+\]/g,
// :not() pseudo-class does not add to specificity, but its content does as if it was outside it
PSEUDO_CLASSES_RE = /\:(?!not)[\w-]+(\(.*\))?/g,
PSEUDO_ELEMENTS_RE = /\:\:?(after|before|first-letter|first-line|selection)/g;
// convert an array-like object to array
function toArray(list) {
return [].slice.call(list);
}
// handles extraction of `cssRules` as an `Array` from a stylesheet or something that behaves the same
function getSheetRules(stylesheet) {
var sheet_media = stylesheet.media && stylesheet.media.mediaText;
// if this sheet is disabled skip it
if ( stylesheet.disabled ) return [];
// if this sheet's media is specified and doesn't match the viewport then skip it
if ( sheet_media && sheet_media.length && ! window.matchMedia(sheet_media).matches ) return [];
// get the style rules of this sheet
return toArray(stylesheet.cssRules);
}
function _find(string, re) {
var matches = string.match(re);
return matches ? matches.length : 0;
}
// calculates the specificity of a given `selector`
function calculateScore(selector) {
var score = [0,0,0],
parts = selector.split(' '),
part, match;
//TODO: clean the ':not' part since the last ELEMENT_RE will pick it up
while (part = parts.shift(), typeof part == 'string') {
// find all pseudo-elements
match = _find(part, PSEUDO_ELEMENTS_RE);
score[2] += match;
// and remove them
match && (part = part.replace(PSEUDO_ELEMENTS_RE, ''));
// find all pseudo-classes
match = _find(part, PSEUDO_CLASSES_RE);
score[1] += match;
// and remove them
match && (part = part.replace(PSEUDO_CLASSES_RE, ''));
// find all attributes
match = _find(part, ATTR_RE);
score[1] += match;
// and remove them
match && (part = part.replace(ATTR_RE, ''));
// find all IDs
match = _find(part, ID_RE);
score[0] += match;
// and remove them
match && (part = part.replace(ID_RE, ''));
// find all classes
match = _find(part, CLASS_RE);
score[1] += match;
// and remove them
match && (part = part.replace(CLASS_RE, ''));
// find all elements
score[2] += _find(part, ELEMENT_RE);
}
return parseInt(score.join(''), 10);
}
// returns the heights possible specificity score an element can get from a give rule's selectorText
function getSpecificityScore(element, selector_text) {
var selectors = selector_text.split(','),
selector, score, result = 0;
while (selector = selectors.shift()) {
if (matchesSelector(element, selector)) {
score = calculateScore(selector);
result = score > result ? score : result;
}
}
return result;
}
function sortBySpecificity(element, rules) {
// comparing function that sorts CSSStyleRules according to specificity of their `selectorText`
function compareSpecificity (a, b) {
return getSpecificityScore(element, b.selectorText) - getSpecificityScore(element, a.selectorText);
}
return rules.sort(compareSpecificity);
}
// Find correct matchesSelector impl
function matchesSelector(el, selector) {
var matcher = el.matchesSelector || el.mozMatchesSelector ||
el.webkitMatchesSelector || el.oMatchesSelector || el.msMatchesSelector;
return matcher.call(el, selector);
}
//TODO: not supporting 2nd argument for selecting pseudo elements
//TODO: not supporting 3rd argument for checking author style sheets only
window.getMatchedCSSRules = function (element /*, pseudo, author_only*/) {
var style_sheets, sheet, sheet_media,
rules, rule,
result = [];
// get stylesheets and convert to a regular Array
style_sheets = toArray(window.document.styleSheets);
// assuming the browser hands us stylesheets in order of appearance
// we iterate them from the beginning to follow proper cascade order
while (sheet = style_sheets.shift()) {
// get the style rules of this sheet
rules = getSheetRules(sheet);
// loop the rules in order of appearance
while (rule = rules.shift()) {
// if this is an #import rule
if (rule.styleSheet) {
// insert the imported stylesheet's rules at the beginning of this stylesheet's rules
rules = getSheetRules(rule.styleSheet).concat(rules);
// and skip this rule
continue;
}
// if there's no stylesheet attribute BUT there IS a media attribute it's a media rule
else if (rule.media) {
// insert the contained rules of this media rule to the beginning of this stylesheet's rules
rules = getSheetRules(rule).concat(rules);
// and skip it
continue
}
// check if this element matches this rule's selector
if (matchesSelector(element, rule.selectorText)) {
// push the rule to the results set
result.push(rule);
}
}
}
// sort according to specificity
return sortBySpecificity(element, result);
};
}
Fixed bugs
= match → += match
return re ? re.length : 0; → return matches ? matches.length : 0;
_matchesSelector(element, selector) → matchesSelector(element, selector)
matcher(selector) → matcher.call(el, selector)
EDIT: This answer is now deprecated and no longer works in Chrome 64+. Leaving for historical context. In fact that bug report links back to this question for alternative solutions to using this.
Seems I managed to answer my own question after another hour of research.
It's as simple as this:
window.getMatchedCSSRules(document.getElementById("description"))
(Works in WebKit/Chrome, possibly others too)
Have a look at this library, which does what was asked for: http://www.brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/cssutilities/
It works in all modern browsers right back to IE6, can give you rule and property collections like Firebug (in fact it's more accurate than Firebug), and can also calculate the relative or absolute specificity of any rule. The only caveat is that, although it understands static media types, it doesn't understand media-queries.
Here is my version of getMatchedCSSRules function which support #media query.
const getMatchedCSSRules = (el) => {
let rules = [...document.styleSheets]
rules = rules.filter(({ href }) => !href)
rules = rules.map((sheet) => [...(sheet.cssRules || sheet.rules || [])].map((rule) => {
if (rule instanceof CSSStyleRule) {
return [rule]
} else if (rule instanceof CSSMediaRule && window.matchMedia(rule.conditionText)) {
return [...rule.cssRules]
}
return []
}))
rules = rules.reduce((acc, rules) => acc.concat(...rules), [])
rules = rules.filter((rule) => el.matches(rule.selectorText))
rules = rules.map(({ style }) => style)
return rules
}
Here's a version of S.B.'s answer which also returns matching rules within matching media queries. I've removed the *.rules || *.cssRules coalescence and the .matches implementation finder; add a polyfill or add those lines back in if you need them.
This version also returns the CSSStyleRule objects rather than the rule text. I think this is a little more useful, since the specifics of the rules can be more easily probed programmatically this way.
Coffee:
getMatchedCSSRules = (element) ->
sheets = document.styleSheets
matching = []
loopRules = (rules) ->
for rule in rules
if rule instanceof CSSMediaRule
if window.matchMedia(rule.conditionText).matches
loopRules rule.cssRules
else if rule instanceof CSSStyleRule
if element.matches rule.selectorText
matching.push rule
return
loopRules sheet.cssRules for sheet in sheets
return matching
JS:
function getMatchedCSSRules(element) {
var i, len, matching = [], sheets = document.styleSheets;
function loopRules(rules) {
var i, len, rule;
for (i = 0, len = rules.length; i < len; i++) {
rule = rules[i];
if (rule instanceof CSSMediaRule) {
if (window.matchMedia(rule.conditionText).matches) {
loopRules(rule.cssRules);
}
} else if (rule instanceof CSSStyleRule) {
if (element.matches(rule.selectorText)) {
matching.push(rule);
}
}
}
};
for (i = 0, len = sheets.length; i < len; i++) {
loopRules(sheets[i].cssRules);
}
return matching;
}
var GetMatchedCSSRules = (elem, css = document.styleSheets) => Array.from(css)
.map(s => Array.from(s.cssRules).filter(r => elem.matches(r.selectorText)))
.reduce((a,b) => a.concat(b));
function Go(paragraph, print) {
var rules = GetMatchedCSSRules(paragraph);
PrintInfo:
print.value += "Rule 1: " + rules[0].cssText + "\n";
print.value += "Rule 2: " + rules[1].cssText + "\n\n";
print.value += rules[0].parentStyleSheet.ownerNode.outerHTML;
}
Go(document.getElementById("description"), document.getElementById("print"));
p {color: red;}
#description {font-size: 20px;}
<p id="description">Lorem ipsum</p>
<textarea id="print" cols="50" rows="12"></textarea>
Ensuring IE9+, I wrote a function which calculates CSS for requested element and its children, and gives possibility to save it to a new className if needed in snippet below.
/**
* #function getElementStyles
*
* Computes all CSS for requested HTMLElement and its child nodes and applies to dummy class
*
* #param {HTMLElement} element
* #param {string} className (optional)
* #param {string} extras (optional)
* #return {string} CSS Styles
*/
function getElementStyles(element, className, addOnCSS) {
if (element.nodeType !== 1) {
return;
}
var styles = '';
var children = element.getElementsByTagName('*');
className = className || '.' + element.className.replace(/^| /g, '.');
addOnCSS = addOnCSS || '';
styles += className + '{' + (window.getComputedStyle(element, null).cssText + addOnCSS) + '}';
for (var j = 0; j < children.length; j++) {
if (children[j].className) {
var childClassName = '.' + children[j].className.replace(/^| /g, '.');
styles += ' ' + className + '>' + childClassName +
'{' + window.getComputedStyle(children[j], null).cssText + '}';
}
}
return styles;
}
Usage
getElementStyles(document.getElementByClassName('.my-class'), '.dummy-class', 'width:100%;opaity:0.5;transform:scale(1.5);');
I think the answer from S.B. should be the accepted one at this point but it is not exact. It is mentioned a few times that there will be some rules that may be missed. Faced with that, I decided to use document.querySelectorAll instead of element.matches. The only thing is that you would need some kind of unique identification of elements to compare it to the one you are looking for. In most cases I think that is achievable by setting its id to have a unique value. That's how you can identify the matched element being yours. If you can think of a general way to match the result of document.querySelectorAll to the element you are looking for that would essentially be a complete polyfill of getMatchedCSSRules.
I checked the performance for document.querySelectorAll since it probably is slower than element.matches but in most cases it should not be a problem. I see that it takes about 0.001 milliseconds.
I also found CSSUtilities library that advertises that it can do this but I feel its old and has not been updated in a while. Looking at its source code, it makes me think there may be cases that it misses.
As the linked question is closed as a duplicate of this, I add an answer here instead.
The unanswered part 2: "Once I found the computed style, I want to know where it comes from"
By looping over the document.styleSheets, and looking at the getComputedStyle() before and after you modify it, you can detect what stylesheet is in use.
It's far from optimal, but at least it can detect if the rule you looking at is in use or not.
Here is an exemple:
<html><head>
<title>CSS Test</title>
<style id="style-a">
li {color: #333; font-size: 20px !important;}
li.bb {color: #600; font-size: 10px;}
p {margin: 5px;}
p {margin-bottom: 10px;}
</style>
<script>
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', async () => {
const selector = 'li';
// const selector = 'li.bb';
const exempleValues = {
'color': ['rgb(0, 0, 0)', 'rgb(255, 255, 255)'],
'font-size': ['10px', '12px'],
};
const delay = (t) => new Promise((k, e) => {setTimeout(k, t)});
for(const element of document.querySelectorAll(selector)) {
const elementCss = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element);
for(const sheet of document.styleSheets) {
for(const rule of sheet.cssRules) {
if(rule.selectorText !== selector) {
continue;
}
for(const properyName of rule.style) {
const currentValue = rule.style[properyName];
const priority = rule.style.getPropertyPriority(properyName)
if(!exempleValues[properyName]) {
console.warn('no exemple values for', properyName);
continue;
}
const exempleValue = exempleValues[properyName][exempleValues[properyName][0] === currentValue ? 1 : 0];
rule.style.setProperty(properyName, exempleValue, priority);
await delay(100);
if(exempleValue === elementCss[properyName]) {
console.log(selector, properyName, currentValue, priority || false, true, 'in use', element, sheet.ownerNode);
} else {
console.log(selector, properyName, currentValue, priority || false, false, 'overrided', element);
}
rule.style.setProperty(properyName, currentValue, priority);
await delay(100);
}
}
}
}
}, {once: true});
</script>
</head><body>
<h1>CSS Test</h1>
<p>html-file for testing css</p>
<ul>
<li>AAAA</li>
<li class="bb">BBBB</li>
<li>CCCC</li>
</ul>
</body></html>
If I have the following string: John Smith, how could I use CSS to set font-weight: bold on the second word in order to achieve: John Smith.
Can this be done in pure CSS?
Update: I am retrieving user's name from the server, so in my template it is #{user.profile.name}.
Since a js solution was suggested and pure CSS isn't presently possible: Live demo (click).
Sample markup:
<p class="bold-second-word">John Smith</p>
<p class="bold-second-word">This guy and stuff.</p>
JavaScript:
var toBold = document.getElementsByClassName('bold-second-word');
for (var i=0; i<toBold.length; ++i) {
boldSecondWord(toBold[i]);
}
function boldSecondWord(elem) {
elem.innerHTML = elem.textContent.replace(/\w+ (\w+)/, function(s, c) {
return s.replace(c, '<b>'+c+'</b>');
});
}
It cannot be done in pure CSS, sorry. But if you are willing to accept a JavaScript fix, then you might want to look into something like this:
Find the start and end index of the second word in the element's textContent.
Add contenteditable attribute to element.
Use the Selection API to select that range.
Use execCommand with the bold command.
Remove contenteditable attribute.
EDIT: (just saw your edit) I agree this is a bit too hack-y for most uses. Perhaps you'd be better off saving what the last name is as meta-data?
It seems to be impossible by using only pure CSS. However, with a bit of JS you could get there pretty easily:
const phrases = document.querySelectorAll('.bold-second-word');
for (const phrase of phrases) {
const words = phrase.innerHTML.split(' ');
words[1] = `<b>${words[1]}</b>`; // this would return the second word
phrase.innerHTML = words.join(' ');
}
<p class="bold-second-word">John Smith</p>
<p class="bold-second-word">Aaron Kelly Jones</p>
I have a link like this:
<h1>
Title 001 - Stuff
</h1>
I want to style only "Title 001". It's possible to create a css rule to do this?
I don't remember how I did in the past, I think it was something like this:
h1 a[text="Title 001"]
But this doesn't work
And... then I want to know if it possible to do that with "Title XXX" where XXX is a dynamic number.
You can't select by content, but you can use attributes (as you nearly did already).
<h1>
Title 001 - Stuff
</h1>
a[data-content="Title 0001 - Stuff"] {
color: red;
}
Duplicate Content in Attribute
If you would like to avoid using JavaScript, you could duplicate the content (gasp) in an actual attribute, and select based on that attribute:
Title 001 - Stuff
And then select anything that starts with "Title":
a[data-content^="Title"] {
color: red;
}
Manually Test textContent
Alternatively, you'd have to take an approach with JavaScript:
var links = document.querySelectorAll( "a" );
var pattern = /^Title\s\d{3}/;
for ( var i = 0; i < links.length; i++ ) {
if ( pattern.test( links[ i ].textContent ) ) {
links[ i ].classList.add( "distinguish" );
}
}
This is simply one example of how you could add a .distinguish class to all matching elements.
Filtering with jQuery
If you are using jQuery (or a similar utility) you could accomplish this without so much verbosity:
$("a").filter(function () {
return /^Title/.test( $(this).text() );
}).addClass("distinguish");
Isolating "Title :digits:"
If you only want to isolate, and style, the Title XXX portion and you don't have access to the source templates, you could do this too with JavaScript:
$("a").html(function ( index, html ) {
return html.replace(/(Title \d+)/, "<span>$1</span>");
});
The above assumes you are using jQuery, but if you're not you can accomplish the same thing with the following:
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a")
, length = anchors.length
, el;
while ( length-- ) {
el = anchors[ length ];
el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML.replace(/(Title \d+)/, "<span>$1</span>");
}
With css
Title 001 - Stuff
a[data-content^="Title"] {
color: red;
}.
But
Here is what you can do with jQuery in much smarter way,
$('a').filter(function (i, element) {
return element.text == "Title 001 - Stuff";
}).css('color','green');
Working fiddle
I'm afraid this is impossible in CSS.
You're using an attribute selector:
a[text="Title 001"]
and your <a> hasn't got an attribute called text.
You would have to use Javascript to handle such situation. There was once an idea to have a :contains() pseudo-selector but this has never been implemented.
I often find nice stylings on the web. To copy the CSS of a DOM element, I inspect that element with Google Chrome Developer Tools, look at the various CSS properties, and copy those manually to my own stylesheets.
Is it possible to easily export all CSS properties of a given DOM element?
Here is the code for an exportStyles() method that should return a CSS string including all inline and external styles for a given element, except default values (which was the main difficulty).
For example: console.log(someElement.exportStyles());
Since you are using Chrome, I did not bother making it compatible with IE.
Actually it just needs that the browsers supports the getComputedStyle(element) method.
Element.prototype.exportStyles = (function () {
// Mapping between tag names and css default values lookup tables. This allows to exclude default values in the result.
var defaultStylesByTagName = {};
// Styles inherited from style sheets will not be rendered for elements with these tag names
var noStyleTags = {"BASE":true,"HEAD":true,"HTML":true,"META":true,"NOFRAME":true,"NOSCRIPT":true,"PARAM":true,"SCRIPT":true,"STYLE":true,"TITLE":true};
// This list determines which css default values lookup tables are precomputed at load time
// Lookup tables for other tag names will be automatically built at runtime if needed
var tagNames = ["A","ABBR","ADDRESS","AREA","ARTICLE","ASIDE","AUDIO","B","BASE","BDI","BDO","BLOCKQUOTE","BODY","BR","BUTTON","CANVAS","CAPTION","CENTER","CITE","CODE","COL","COLGROUP","COMMAND","DATALIST","DD","DEL","DETAILS","DFN","DIV","DL","DT","EM","EMBED","FIELDSET","FIGCAPTION","FIGURE","FONT","FOOTER","FORM","H1","H2","H3","H4","H5","H6","HEAD","HEADER","HGROUP","HR","HTML","I","IFRAME","IMG","INPUT","INS","KBD","KEYGEN","LABEL","LEGEND","LI","LINK","MAP","MARK","MATH","MENU","META","METER","NAV","NOBR","NOSCRIPT","OBJECT","OL","OPTION","OPTGROUP","OUTPUT","P","PARAM","PRE","PROGRESS","Q","RP","RT","RUBY","S","SAMP","SCRIPT","SECTION","SELECT","SMALL","SOURCE","SPAN","STRONG","STYLE","SUB","SUMMARY","SUP","SVG","TABLE","TBODY","TD","TEXTAREA","TFOOT","TH","THEAD","TIME","TITLE","TR","TRACK","U","UL","VAR","VIDEO","WBR"];
// Precompute the lookup tables.
for (var i = 0; i < tagNames.length; i++) {
if(!noStyleTags[tagNames[i]]) {
defaultStylesByTagName[tagNames[i]] = computeDefaultStyleByTagName(tagNames[i]);
}
}
function computeDefaultStyleByTagName(tagName) {
var defaultStyle = {};
var element = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement(tagName));
var computedStyle = getComputedStyle(element);
for (var i = 0; i < computedStyle.length; i++) {
defaultStyle[computedStyle[i]] = computedStyle[computedStyle[i]];
}
document.body.removeChild(element);
return defaultStyle;
}
function getDefaultStyleByTagName(tagName) {
tagName = tagName.toUpperCase();
if (!defaultStylesByTagName[tagName]) {
defaultStylesByTagName[tagName] = computeDefaultStyleByTagName(tagName);
}
return defaultStylesByTagName[tagName];
}
return function exportStyles() {
if (this.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
throw new TypeError("The exportStyles method only works on elements, not on " + this.nodeType + " nodes.");
}
if (noStyleTags[this.tagName]) {
throw new TypeError("The exportStyles method does not work on " + this.tagName + " elements.");
}
var styles = {};
var computedStyle = getComputedStyle(this);
var defaultStyle = getDefaultStyleByTagName(this.tagName);
for (var i = 0; i < computedStyle.length; i++) {
var cssPropName = computedStyle[i];
if (computedStyle[cssPropName] !== defaultStyle[cssPropName]) {
styles[cssPropName] = computedStyle[cssPropName];
}
}
var a = ["{"];
for(var i in styles) {
a[a.length] = i + ": " + styles[i] + ";";
}
a[a.length] = "}"
return a.join("\r\n");
}
})();
This code is base on my answer for a slightly related question: Extract the current DOM and print it as a string, with styles intact
I'm quoting Doozer Blake's excellent answer, provided above as a comment. If you like this answer, please upvote his original comment above:
Not a direct answer, but with Chrome Developer Tools, you can click inside Styles or Computed Styles, hit Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C to copy all the styles in those given areas. It's not perfect in the Style tab because it picks up some extra stuff. Better than selecting them one by one I guess. – Doozer Blake 3 hours ago
You can do the same using Firebug for Firefox, by using Firebug's "Computed" side panel.
There are a few ways to almost do this.
Have a look at FireDiff
Also have a look at cssUpdater This is for local CSS only]
And see this Q for more similar tools: Why can't I save CSS changes in Firebug?
Also this paid product claims to be able to do this: http://www.skybound.ca/