CSS Object Model (CSSOM)

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The CSS Object Model (CSSOM) is a set of APIs for reading and modifying a document’s style-related (CSS) information. In other words, similar to the way in which the DOM enables a document’s structure and content to be read and modified from JavaScript, the CSSOM allows the document’s styling to be read and modified from JavaScript.

See also

• Populating the page: how browsers work