The cssom npm package is a library for parsing CSS files and manipulating CSSOM (CSS Object Model). It allows users to parse CSS strings into a stylesheet object, manipulate CSS rules, and serialize CSS objects back to strings. It is useful for server-side processing of CSS files or for any environment where a DOM is not present.

What are cssom's main functionalities?

Parsing CSS strings

This feature allows you to parse a string of CSS into a CSSOM object, which can then be manipulated or queried.

const CSSOM = require('cssom');
const cssText = 'body { font-size: 12px; }';
const parsedCSS = CSSOM.parse(cssText);
console.log(parsedCSS);

Manipulating CSS rules

After parsing CSS, you can manipulate the CSS rules, such as changing the font size from 12px to 14px in this example.

const CSSOM = require('cssom');
const cssText = 'body { font-size: 12px; }';
const parsedCSS = CSSOM.parse(cssText);
parsedCSS.cssRules[0].style.setProperty('font-size', '14px');
console.log(parsedCSS.toString());

Serializing CSSOM to string

This feature allows you to serialize the manipulated CSSOM back into a CSS string, which can then be used in a style tag or an external stylesheet.

const CSSOM = require('cssom');
const cssText = 'body { font-size: 12px; }';
const parsedCSS = CSSOM.parse(cssText);
parsedCSS.cssRules[0].style.setProperty('font-size', '14px');
const serializedCSS = parsedCSS.toString();
console.log(serializedCSS);

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CSSOM

CSSOM.js is a CSS parser written in pure JavaScript. It also a partial implementation of CSS Object Model.

CSSOM.parse("body {color: black}")
-> {
  cssRules: [
    {
      selectorText: "body",
      style: {
        0: "color",
        color: "black",
        length: 1
      }
    }
  ]
}

Parser demo

Works well in Google Chrome 6+, Safari 5+, Firefox 3.6+, Opera 10.63+. Doesn't work in IE < 9 because of unsupported getters/setters.

To use CSSOM.js in the browser you might want to build a one-file version with Jake:

➤ jake
build/CSSOM.js is done

To use it with Node.js:

npm install cssom

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Last updated on 15 Jul 2012

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