Is there any way to add css rules by javascript?

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If I have the following tag style:

<style>
 body{
  color:red;
}
</style>

It would be possible to add another new css rule like inside this style through the Javascript?

For example, I want to add this to the end of the first style I gave as an example:

.class-x {
     color:yellow;
}

You can do it using a jQuery append, right? Half a Trash, but it works

– Caio Felipe Pereira

2015/12/14 at 16:58
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Theoretically, you can use document.styleSheets but there’s probably a more practical way (with CSS hierarchy, maybe) of doing what you want. Can you explain better what the goal is? Or is it just curiosity?

– Gabe

2015/12/14 at 17:01
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What is the goal? Have some example that needs this logic?

– RBoschini

2015/12/14 at 17:02
@Gabe curiosity. Some do not see utility, but it is not a question of being useful. I just want to learn even if it has a form. After that comment someone must want to give me negatives :)

– Wallace Maxters

2015/12/14 at 17:02
Thanks @Gabe! I found this in the reference you sent https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleSheet/insertRule

– Wallace Maxters

2015/12/14 at 17:04
@Wallacemaxters I’ve never used, so I can’t say exactly what is possible to do or not. But I believe that dcument.styleSheets be really the way...

– Gabe

2015/12/14 at 17:04
That would be: var myElements = Document.querySelectorAll(".bar"); for (var i = 0; i < myElements.length; i++) { myElements[i].style.opacity = 0; }

– durtto

2015/12/14 at 17:05
That’s not what @durtto

– Wallace Maxters

2015/12/14 at 17:23

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by Wallace Maxters • **102,340** points · Answer 1 · 2015-12-14T17:07:43+00:00

The @Gabe gave a reference in which, after being tested, I have proven that it works (at least on Google Chrome 46).

It is through the method insertRule, present in CSSStyleSheet.

To access it, you must access the list of elements style page.

In that case I’ll take the first:

var css = document.styleSheets[0]

Then we insert the rule in this style:

css.insertRule('body{ color: green; }', 0);