CSSLayerBlockRule: name property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2022.

The read-only name property of the CSSLayerBlockRule interface represents the name of the associated cascade layer.

Value

A string containing the name of the layer, or "" if the layer is anonymous.

Examples

HTML

html
<output></output> <output></output>

CSS

css
output {
  display: block;
}

@layer special {
  div {
    color: rebeccapurple;
  }
}

@layer {
  div {
    color: black;
  }
}

JavaScript

js
const item1 = document.getElementsByTagName("output")[0];
const item2 = document.getElementsByTagName("output")[1];
const rules = document.styleSheets[1].cssRules;
// Note that stylesheet #1 is the stylesheet associated with this embedded example,
// while stylesheet #0 is the stylesheet associated with the whole MDN page

const layer = rules[1]; // A CSSLayerBlockRule
const anonymous = rules[2]; // An anonymous CSSLayerBlockRule

item1.textContent = `The first CSSLayerBlockRule defines the "${layer.name}" layer.`;
item2.textContent = `A second CSSLayerBlockRule defines a layer with the following name: "${anonymous.name}".`;

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 5
# dom-csslayerblockrule-name

Browser compatibility

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See also