Apply style to first element in a row of similar elements - css

I have the following list (the numbers are just for reference)
<div class="A">alpha1</div>
<div class="B">alpha2</div>
<div class="A">alpha3</div>
<div class="A">alpha4</div>
<div class="A">alpha5</div>
<div class="B">alpha6</div>
<div class="A">alpha7</div>
I want to apply one style to DIVS 1, 3 and 7, because they are the first of their class (A) in a row of elements of the same class. Is there a pseudo element / magic I can use for that? Something like (inventing)
not(.A) & .A {color:red} -> if class is A and it is not preceded by an A
Thanks!

You use the :not() pseudo-class with an adjacent sibling combinator + to match an .A that is not immediately preceded by an .A:
:not(.A) + .A
You'll also need to use :first-child to select the very first .A element since it's not preceded by anything:
.A:first-child
Combine them, and you have:
:not(.A) + .A, .A:first-child { color: red; }
jsFiddle demo

Here is a cross browser solution using JavaScript:
http://jsfiddle.net/YhvGw/
function applyStyleToFirstDiv(className, styleAttr, val,baseSelector) {
//Allow to specify a base element to search in
if(baseSelector == null){
baseSelector = document
}
var divElements = baseSelector.getElementsByTagName("div"),
len = divElements.length;
var prevWas = false,currentIs;
// Go through all the divs
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
var cur = divElements[i];
var classes = cur.className.split(" ");
currentIs = false;
for (var j = 0; j < classes.length; j++) {
//If you find a matching class
if (classes[j] === className) {
currentIs = true;
break;
}
}
//If the current one matches, and the last one didn't, apply the style, otherwise don't
if(currentIs && !prevWas){
cur.style[styleAttr] = val;
}
prevWas = currentIs;
}
}
//usage sample
applyStyleToFirstDiv("A","color","yellow");

Here is an example:
div:not(.A) + .A, .A:first-of-type{
color:red;
}

Related

Achieve nth-child to have nth-background image

Hello is there a way to write css for let me say 100 elements with .class to have different background images?
So that first .class element will have background-img_1.svg, second .class element will have background-img_2.svg and so on...
I was thinking about workaround with ::before/::after and merge counter and image-url to content property but it seems I cannot merge two strings into content.
As #Paulie_D said with CSS only isn't possible, you can use JavaScript.
// gets all elements with the classname ".class"
const ELEMENTS = document.querySelectorAll('.class');
// counts how many elements exist with the classname ".class"
let numberOfElements = ELEMENTS.length;
// for-loop that iterates over the ELEMENTS Node-List
for (let i = 0; i < numberOfElements; i++) {
let element = ELEMENTS[i];
let pathToImage = `background-img_${i + 1}.svg`;
element.style.backgroundImage = pathToImage;
}
W3Schools Javascript
vanilla CSS can not do this an easy way. The easiest lightweight solution would be the usage of a pre-compiler such as SASS or LESS.
There you can make use of a for-loop:
#for $i from 1 through 100 {
.class:nth-child(#{$i}) {
background-image: url(background-img_#{$i}.svg);
}
}
that would compile into normal CSS:
.class:nth-child(1) {
background-image: url(background-img_1.svg);
}
.class:nth-child(2) {
background-image: url(background-img_2.svg);
}
...
.class:nth-child(100) {
background-image: url(Background-img_100.svg);
}

get <style> or <link> element that defines a given CSS class [duplicate]

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>

Change css from sibling when hovered on with SCSS

I want to change the css from the sibling when I hover on the element. Is there a way to do this with SCSS?
Example: https://jsfiddle.net/rqb5ytav/
Like when I hover on .one how do I change the background color of .two?
Use + CSS selector. It's available from CSS2.
.one:hover + .two {
background-color:green;
}
Please look at the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/rqb5ytav/1/.
You can use previousElementSibling and nextElementSibling property to get the css properties.
var divOneColor = null;
var divTwoColor = null;
$(document).on('mouseover', 'div', function(e) {
var clName = $(e.target).attr('class')
if(clName == "one") {
divOneColor = $(this).css("background-color");
divTwoColor = $(this.nextElementSibling).css("background-color");
$(".two").css("background-color", divOneColor);
$(".one").css("background-color", divTwoColor);
}
else if (clName=="two"){
divOneColor = $(this.previousElementSibling).css("background-color");
divTwoColor = $(this).css("background-color");
$(".one").css("background-color", divTwoColor);
$(".two").css("background-color", divOneColor);
}
});
Please look at the fiddle.
https://jsfiddle.net/7ow38dve/

Getting information from Chrome inspect elements API, especially the style sidebar pane [duplicate]

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>

Can I accomplish this with CSS?

If I've got elements like this:
A
B
A
C
I know I can use something like
body
{
counter-reset:section;
}
a:before
{
counter-increment:section;
content:counter(section)". ";
}
to get
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
but is there a way to get the following?
1. A
2. B
1. A
3. C
ie. uniquely identify all links on a page by prefixing the text with the same number.
Note: hardcoding specific URLs isn't an option, I'm potentially dealing with hundreds of links and don't know the URLs ahead of time.
I realize this would be easy/possible with javascript, I am only interested in CSS-based solutions or an explanation of why this isn't possible with CSS.
Ok, I got what you mean with your question. Just with plain CSS it's not possible (at least not cross-platform..)
If you can use javascript, you have several possibilities.
My preference would be to use a data-attribute to hold the value, for this example I chose data-counter. If you do like this, the CSS becomes trivial:
CSS
a:before
{
content:attr(data-counter)". ";
}​
And the Javascript would look like this if you have jQuery:
JS with jQuery
var linkcounter = {};
var counter = 0;
$("a").each(function() {
if (!linkcounter.hasOwnProperty($(this).attr("href"))) {
counter++;
linkcounter[$(this).attr("href")] = counter;
}
$(this).attr("data-counter", linkcounter[$(this).attr("href")]);
});
​
or like this without jQuery:
vanilla JS
var linkcounter = {};
var counter = 0;
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
if (!linkcounter.hasOwnProperty(anchors[i].getAttribute("href"))) {
counter++;
linkcounter[anchors[i].getAttribute("href")] = counter;
}
anchors[i].setAttribute("data-counter", linkcounter[anchors[i].getAttribute("href")]);
}
You can view the version without jQUery here: http://jsfiddle.net/ramsesoriginal/CVW7Y/5
And the version with jQuery here: http://jsfiddle.net/ramsesoriginal/CVW7Y/4
Sadly there is no CSS only way to do this (yet). I hope this helps.
​
I don't think you can get this behaviour with pure CSS, and you need Javascript. And there are always cases like this:
http://google.com/
http://google.com
google.com
google.com/
www.google.com
You get the point.
In jQuery this is quite trivial, so I'd suggest you use that.
If using jQuery is OK, this can be done by manipulating the :before pseudo element's content:
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rwMWx/2/
JS
var labels = [
"1",
"2",
"1",
"3"
// and so on...
];
// OR maybe put in some algo for this sequence
$('a').each(function(i) {
$(this).attr('data-label', labels[i] + '. ');
});
CSS
a:before {
content: attr(data-label);
color: red;
text-align: left;
padding-right: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
display: inline;
}
You could use :contains but I'm not sure how supported it is so you might be better off with JavaScript.
a:contains("A") {
/* Styles here */
}
a:contains("B") {
/* Styles here */
}
EDIT:
Apparently :contains isn't supported at all. I'll leave this up here though so no one else bothers putting it.
You could use :contains in jQuery though and add a class accordingly.
$('a:contains(A)').addClass('CLASS_NAME');
try this code:
var counter = 0, cache = {};
$('a').each(function (i, a) {
a = $(a);
var href = a.attr('href');
var c = cache[href];
if (!c) {
counter++;
c = counter;
cache[href] = c;
}
a.text(c + '. ' + a.text());
});
​
I'm using jQuery, and that's how it works: http://jsfiddle.net/pDLbQ/

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