A CSS Variables Polyfill for IE11
source link: https://github.com/nuxodin/ie11CustomProperties?new=1
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CSS Variables for IE11
A real Custom Properties polyfill for IE11.
Used on about 9000 Live Websites
New in v2.7.2: Great performance improvement
It can:
- chaining
--bar:var(--foo)
- fallback
var(--color, blue)
- :focus, :target, :hover
- handle dynamic added html-content
- handle dynamic added
<style>
,<link>
-elements - js-integration:
style.setProperty('--x','y') style.getPropertyValue('--x') getComputedStyle(el).getPropertyValue('--inherited')
- Houdini’s new API:
CSS.registerProperty({name:'--red', inherit:false, initialValue:'#e33'})
(of course not animatable) - style-attributes
<div ie-style="--foo:bar"...
- cascade works
- inheritance works
-
!important
on setters and getters - SVG-support
- media-queries (redraw on media-changes)
- transform relative to absolute urls
- under 3k (min+gzip) and dependency-free
Ussage
You only want IE11 to load the polyfill, use this snipped in the head of your html file, it then just works:
<script>window.MSInputMethodContext && document.documentMode && document.write('<script src="yourJsPath/ie11CustomProperties.js"><\x2fscript>');</script>
Help wanted!
- Add a :star:️
- Vote for this solution at stackoverflow
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57000437/4865307 and
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56830621/4865307 and
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57000620/4865307 - Test, report bugs and send pull requests.
- Tweet about if you like it.
How it works
The script makes use of the fact that IE has minimal custom properties support where properties can be defined and read out with the cascade in mind. This is not possible with properties starting with double dashes. .myEl {-ie-test:'aaa'} // only one dash allowed! "-"
then you can read it in IE with javascript: getComputedStyle( querySelector('.myEl') )['-ie-test']
In the raw CSS, it replaces for example --foo
with -ie-foo
. It searches for all rules containing variable getters and setter, remembers the affected selectors so future affected Elements can be found in a mutation observer. Each affected Element gets a uniq class-attribute and its own style-sheet to draw the Element. These are the steps that the script does:
- given the CSS
header { --myColor:red; } main { --myColor:green; } li { color:var(--myColor); }
- rewritten CSS
header { -ie-myColor:red; } main { -ie-myColor:green; } li { -ieHasVar-color:var(-ie-myColor); }
- find all affected Element and get its property-values
querySelectorAll('li').forEach(function(){ var color = getComputedStyle(this).getPropertyValue('--myColor'); // getPropertyValue is extended to handle custom properties // draw_the_Element() })
- draw Elements, this leads in separate rules for each Element
li.iecp-u1 { color:red; } li.iecp-u2 { color:red; } li.iecp-u3 { color:green; } li.iecp-u4 { color:green; }
Small limitations
styles in element-attributes
There is no way to get the raw content of style-attributes in IE11. Use <div style="--color:blue" ie-style="--color:blue">
for it
specificity for properties containing "var()"
...is
always little highter if vars are not served by root, cause each selector gets an additional class-selector eg.#header
results in
#header.iecp_u44
Tests
PRs welcome
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