Comments on: Programmatically Accessing the CSS Rules in Your Page's Stylesheets http://blog.stchur.com/2008/04/09/programmatically-accessing-the-css-rules-in-your-pages-stylesheets/ web / programming / javascript / css / html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sstchur http://blog.stchur.com/2008/04/09/programmatically-accessing-the-css-rules-in-your-pages-stylesheets/comment-page-1/#comment-1227 sstchur Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:33:36 +0000 http://blog.stchur.com/2008/04/09/programmatically-accessing-the-css-rules-in-your-pages-stylesheets/#comment-1227 Excellent point Rich. Thanks for calling that out, as I wasn't aware of it. Excellent point Rich. Thanks for calling that out, as I wasn't aware of it.

]]> By: RichB http://blog.stchur.com/2008/04/09/programmatically-accessing-the-css-rules-in-your-pages-stylesheets/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 RichB Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:58:37 +0000 http://blog.stchur.com/2008/04/09/programmatically-accessing-the-css-rules-in-your-pages-stylesheets/#comment-1221 Another caveat would be cross-domain access. Firefox has policies which prevent JavaScript accessing the CSS cross-domain (eg when your CSS is stored on a CDN). I worked on a site where we styled Silverlight by pulling styling attributes from CSS. However, because we were cross-domain, this failed. So we had to style hidden DIVs and then pull the current style off these DIVs and re-apply them to the Silverlight objects. Another caveat would be cross-domain access. Firefox has policies which prevent JavaScript accessing the CSS cross-domain (eg when your CSS is stored on a CDN).

I worked on a site where we styled Silverlight by pulling styling attributes from CSS. However, because we were cross-domain, this failed. So we had to style hidden DIVs and then pull the current style off these DIVs and re-apply them to the Silverlight objects.

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