CSS Declaration

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A CSS declaration is an abstract concept not exposed as an object in the DOM. It represents a CSS property and value pairing.

A CSS declaration has the following associated properties:

• property name
  • : The property name of the declaration, for example {{cssxref("background-color")}} .
• value
  • : The value of the declaration as a list of component values.
• important flag
  • : Either set or unset.
• case-sensitive flag
  • : Set if the property name is defined to be case-sensitive according to the specification, otherwise unset.

Basic example

The following example shows a CSS rule with a CSS declaration block for the {{htmlelement("Heading_Elements","<h1>")}}  element. The CSS declaration block is the lines between the curly braces, it contains two CSS declarations. One for {{cssxref("font-style")}}  and another for {{cssxref("color")}} .

h1 {
  font-style: italic;
  color: rebeccapurple;
}

Specifications

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