# What was that other way to set CSS styles?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-was-that-other-way-to-set-css-styles/650117
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [December 20, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-was-that-other-way-to-set-css-styles/650117 "2021-12-20T21:39:52Z")
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-was-that-other-way-to-set-css-styles/650117/1 "2021-12-20T21:39:52Z")
@senocular - a while ago, as part of your [JS Tips of the Day](https://www.kirupa.com/javascript/tips.htm), there was a clever approach for setting CSS styles on elements that you came up with. Do you remember what that is? I’m planning on revising [the old tutorial](https://www.kirupa.com/html5/setting_css_styles_using_javascript.htm) on this, and I want to include your approach as well.
😛
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-was-that-other-way-to-set-css-styles/650117/2 "2021-12-21T17:17:41Z")
Hmm. not sure. Do you mean this?
> [@JS Tip of the Day: Setting HTML Element Styles](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-setting-html-element-styles/643124):
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> Setting HTML Element Styles Level: Beginner In JavaScript, you can set css styles for an element using its style property. This mirrors the style attribute in HTML but with a couple of important differences. First, the style property is an object in JavaScript, not a string value as it is in the HTML attribute. This object is a CSSStyleDeclaration object with each of the individual style declarations defined as properties of that object. \ Danger, Will R…
Not sure if there’s anything clever there. I searched through a few of the other tips to see if there was anything else I was doing but nothing jumped out.
Sometimes I will do something like this, maybe something like this is what you remember seeing?
```javascript
let color = "red"
let fontSize = "2em"
let fontWeight = "bolder"
Object.assign(element.style, {
color,
fontSize,
fontWeight,
})
```
Edit: I just found a tip that does this ^: [JS Tip of the Day: MutationObserver](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-mutationobserver/643095)
P.S. I noticed a few broken links in the Tips page. I didn’t check them all but these are the ones I found that were broken or needed fixing:
- Reduce Code with Destructuring → [JS Tip of the Day: Reduce Code with Destructuring](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-reduce-code-with-destructuring/643176)
- Numeric literal formats → [JS Tip of the Day: Numeric Literal Formats](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-numeric-literal-formats/643150)
- Proxy Objects → [JS Tip of the Day: Proxy Objects](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-proxy-objects/643118)
- Detecting Dark Mode → [JS Tip of the Day: Detecting Dark Mode](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/js-tip-of-the-day-detecting-dark-mode/643179)
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-was-that-other-way-to-set-css-styles/650117/3 "2021-12-21T18:02:22Z")
Yes, that is it! Thanks 😛
(Regarding the broken links, I’ll go through and see what happened there!)