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Related to this question Changing CSS pseudo-element styles via JavaScript, is there any way using javascript that I can access a pseudo-element's style attributes?

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It depends on the browser. I don't believe IE supports this in any way, but for FireFox and Webkit browsers, you can use the following:

window.getComputedStyle(element, pseudo-selector);

For example:

window.getComputedStyle(document.body, ':before');

See: getComputedStyle

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