CSSImportRule

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

The CSSImportRule interface represents an @import at-rule.

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its ancestor CSSRule.

CSSImportRule.href Read only: Returns the URL specified by the @import rule.
CSSImportRule.layerName Read only: Returns the name of the cascade layer declared in the @import rule, the empty string if the layer is anonymous, the or null if the rule doesn't declare any.
CSSImportRule.media: Returns the value of the media attribute of the associated stylesheet.
CSSImportRule.styleSheet Read only: Returns the associated stylesheet.
CSSImportRule.supportsText Read only: Returns the supports condition specified by the @import rule.

Instance methods

Inherits methods from its ancestor CSSRule.

Examples

The document includes a single stylesheet which contains a single @import rule. Therefore the first item in the list of CSS rules will be a CSSImportRule.

css

@import "style.css" screen;

const myRules = document.styleSheets[0].cssRules;
console.log(myRules[0]); // A CSSImportRule instance object

Specifications

Specification
CSS Object Model (CSSOM) # the-cssimportrule-interface

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