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<style>

The <style> contains style information for a document, or part of a document. By default, the style instructions written inside that element are expected to be CSS.

Content categories Metadata content, and if the scoped attribute is present: flow content.
Permitted content Text content matching the type attribute, that is text/css.
Tag omission Neither tag is omissible.
Permitted parents Any element that accepts metadata content.
Permitted ARIA roles None
DOM interface HTMLStyleElement

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

type

This attribute defines the styling language as a MIME type (charset should not be specified). This attribute is optional and defaults to text/css if it is missing.

media

This attribute defines which media the style should be applied to. Its value is a media query, which defaults to all if the attribute is missing.

nonce

A cryptographic nonce (number used once) to whitelist inline styles in a style-src Content-Security-Policy. The server must generate a unique nonce value each time it transmits a policy. It is critical to provide a nonce that cannot be guessed as bypassing a resource’s policy is otherwise trivial.

title

This attribute specifies alternative style sheet sets.

scoped

This attribute specifies that the styles only apply to the elements of its parent(s) and children.

Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behaviour my change in the future.

Obsolete
This feature is obsolete. Although it may still work in some browsers, its use is discouraged since it could be removed at any time. Try to avoid using it.

Example

A simple stylesheet

<style type="text/css">
body {
  color: red;
}
</style> 

Specifications

Browser compatibility

The information shown below has been pulled from MDN's Github (https:/github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data)

Feature Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support 1 Yes 1 3 3.5 1
type 1 Yes 1 3 3.5 1
media 1 Yes 1 3 3.5 1
title 1 Yes 1 3 3.5 1
scoped 19 — 352 No 21 No No No
Feature Android webview Chrome for Android Edge mobile Firefox for Android IE mobile Opera Android iOS Safari
Basic support 1 1 Yes 4 91 6 1
type 1 1 Yes 4 91 6 1
media 1 1 Yes 4 91 6 1
title 1 1 Yes 4 91 6 1
scoped No No No 21 No No No

1. Mobile Internet Explorer (the previous branding of IE Phone - versions lower than 8) also has support.

2. From version 19 until version 35 (exclusive): this feature is behind the Enable <style scoped> preference (needs to be set to true). To change preferences in Chrome, visit chrome://flags.

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/style